ОТВОРЕНО ПИСМО ДРАГИШЕ СТОЈАДИНОВИЋА ПОВОДОМ „СРПСКИХ ТЕМА” МИРОСЛАВА КРЛЕЖЕ
DRAGIŠA STOJADINOVIĆ’S OPEN LETTER REGARDING MIROSLAV KRLEŽA’S “SERBIAN THEMES”

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the reaction of Dragiša Stojadinović to the feuilleton “Serbian themes” done by the writer Miroslav Krleža. Krleža’s feuilleton was being published in newspaper Politika during April, May and June of 1963. It consisted of fragments from his earlier writings organized in thematic units and concerning different topics from Serbian history. Dragiša Stojadinović, former soldier, chief of Cinematographic section of Serbian army on Salonica front during the First World War and politician in interwar Yugoslavia, responded to Krleža’s feuilleton by writting an Open letter to the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (Zagreb), the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Belgrade) and the Matica Srpska (Novi Sad). Stojadinović’s Open letter was sent on June 28th, 1963. It focused on scrutinizing Krleža’s article Pašić about the Salonika trial published in Politika on June 9th. Both informations stated by Krleža and criticism put forward by Stojadinović are analyzed in the light of contemporary historiographical knowledge. Different interpretations presented by Krleža and Stojadinović have their roots in opposed views on causes and results of Salonika trial. Stojadinović defended the legitimacy of trial started by his father-in-lawLjuba Jovanović Patak, he was involved in its organisation and later accused of witness tampering. Krleža saw trial in the light of “counter-revolutionary” Yugoslav unification in 1918 and as an act of “political and judicial murder”. Article also contains original documents from National Library of Serbia.

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