Slavko Grujić
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Slavko J. Grujić
Early life
Slavko Grujić[a] was born in Belgrade, Principality of Serbia. He was the fourth son, of eight children, to Serbian statesman and diplomat Jevrem Grujić, his father was a central figure of the St Andrew's Day Assembly and the instigator of Serbia's first law on the National Assembly. Slavko Grujić finished high school in Marseille, France, before studying at the Sorbonne University in Paris, where he received his Doctor of Law degree (doctorat en droit) in 1897. He began his diplomatic career as a clerk in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Serbia in January 1898.[3]
Career
Grujić was sent as attaché to Serbia's embassy in
In early October 1908, during the
On the eve of the
After the
In 1916 he became the first Serbian Ambassador to Switzerland where together with Mable he actively organised humanitarian help to occupied Serbia with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. On 13 January 1919, Slavko Grujić became the first ambassador of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later the Kingdom of "Yugoslavia") in Washington, a position he held until 1922.[10] On 10 February 1919, Acting Secretary of State Frank Polk wrote to Ambassador to the United States Slavko Grujić that the United States Government recognized that the Serbian Legation will thereafter be known as the Legation for the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.[11]
Serbia emerged with renewed vitality, stronger than ever, because of the realization of the aspirations of all the Yugoslavs to be united into one Kingdom. The allied victories of 1918 in which Serbia, as the whole world knows, played an important military role, resulted in the liberation of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes whom Austria had held for a century under her cruel yoke. Serbia lived, but Austria-Hungary, who had meant to strike a death blow at her small neighbor, collapsed.[12]
— Slavko Grujić, Yugoslavia's ambassador to the United States. 1919
Upon his return to the country, Grujić actively participated in the work of various humanitarian societies. In 1934, after the death of
Personal life
In 1901, at a ball at the American embassy in Athens, he met his future wife, 21-year-old American archeologist,
See also
Notes
References
Citations
- ^ Epstein 2016, p. 1394.
- ^ Europa Publications Limited 1937, p. 414.
- ^ a b c Čedomir Popov 2013, p. 183.
- ^ Foreign Office 2008, p. 1190.
- ^ Bernadotte Everly Schmitt 1937, p. 47.
- ^ Christopher Clark 2012, p. 441.
- ^ Christopher Clark 2012, p. 520.
- ^ Christopher Clark 2012, p. 521.
- ^ Gatrell, Zhvanko & Summerfield 2017, p. 310.
- ^ United States Congressional Serial Set 1921, p. 376.
- ^ Office of the Historian 1919.
- ^ Monika Baar 2016, p. 638.
- ^ Barbara Tuchman 2014.
Sources
- Monika Baar (2016). A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe: Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century'. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-105695-6.
- Foreign Office (2008). Documents on the foreign policy of the Kingdom of Serbia (in Serbian). Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
- Europa Publications Limited (1937). The International Who's who. Europa Publications Limited. ISSN 0074-9613.
- Gatrell, P.; Zhvanko, L.; Summerfield, P. (2017). Europe on the move: Refugees in the era of the Great War. Cultural History of Modern War. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-0600-1.
- Čedomir Popov (2013). Two Centuries of Modern Serbian Diplomacy (in Serbian). Balkan Institute SANU. ISBN 978-86-7179-079-6.
- Nada Petrović; Saša Ilić (2005). Reports of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (in Serbian). Archives of Serbia and Montenegro. ISBN 978-86-80099-41-5.
- Christopher Clark (2012). The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 978-0-7181-9295-2.
- Epstein, M. (2016). The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1936. Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-0-230-27065-7.
- Aleksandar Rastović (2005). Great Britain and Serbia 1903–1914 (in Serbian). Istorijski institut. ISBN 978-86-7743-052-8.
- "Kingdom of Serbia/Yugoslavia* - Countries". Office of the Historian. 7 February 1919.
- United States Congressional Serial Set (1921). United States Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- Bernadotte Everly Schmitt (1937). The Annexation of Bosnia, 1908–1909. CUP Archive. GGKEY:L0FED4LZHWA.
- Barbara Tuchman (5 June 2014). The Zimmermann Telegram. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 978-0-241-96827-7.
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