ПРИСТУПАЊЕ ЈУГОСЛАВИЈЕ ТРОЈНОМ ПАКТУ: ПОЛИТИЧКА ЗАБЛУДА ИЛИ ИСТОРИЈСКА НУЖНОСТ
THE KINGDOM OF YUGOSLAVIA AS A MEMBER OF THE TRIPARTITE PACT: A POLITICAL BLUNDER OR A HISTORICAL NECESSITY

Summary/Abstract: The Tripartite Non-aggression Pact, signed by the government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, has often been regarded as a great historical dilemma, and a taboo issue for objective research and inferring consequent conclusions. It is primarily the result of the longstanding burden of ideological criticism and disapproval with this pact, but also the consequence of insufficient disclosure of all the factors that influenced such progress of events. Disclosing the historical circumstances that led to such developments, the conduct of the leading government officials, the dilemmas of the state leaders pertaining to the necessity of their choice or willing commitments, this article aims at emphasizing the need to reconsider all the factors that led to such an act. Elaborating on the contents of this pact and the legal character of the accompanying government acts (as well as the documents of the "Axis" governments), the author's intention is to highlight the fact that the undertakings of the leading government officials at the time were not the result of irresponsibility but of ultimate necessity. Moreover, considering the circumstances from the yonder point of view, this extorted act may have been the only possible arrangement which, I daresay, was not so detrimental to the interests of the Kingdom of Yugoslav.

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