Franjo Tudjman Quotes
If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.
Tuđman, Franjo. Speech to the Croatian Sabor. 25 July 1990. Quoted in Ramet, Sabrina P. Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milosevic. 4th ed., Westview Press, 2002.
There was an active secession movement by the Western States. New Orleans was then controlled by the Spanish who would not allow U.S. goods access to export from New Orleans. Some of the wealthier Western citizens thought that they would fare better as a vassal state of Spain rather than part of the newly formed United States. Jefferson, did not overreact and the movement for secession faded.
Each of the Dutch provinces and towns was relatively independent with no central or federal government that could organize or bring consistency to Holland. Each city and community had their own military with no common command, training, logistics, weapons or other common elements that the times began to require. The representatives from Rotterdam made this public declaration for a unified—federal—government.
See {640107} for another quotation creating this so called union. It made great sense to the King, but little to the Poles and Lithuanians who each saw themselves as a very different people and wanted little to so with the other.
Franjo Tuđman, also written as Franjo Tudjman, was a Croatian politician and historian. Following the country's independence from Yugoslavia he became the first President of Croatia and served as president from 1990 until his death in 1999. He was the 9th and last President of the Presidency of SR Croatia from May to July 1990.
