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| Nenade, molim te da najavis ovo na tvojoj mrezi - HVALA - Dinka Prodaje se prekrasan trosoban stan u Splitu na elitnoj lokaciji Trsteniku, sa pogledom na more. Stan ima 3 terase, 3 spavace sobe, i velicine je 101m2 (oko 1000 square feet). Stan je novogradnja, i posjeduje lift. Cijena je 368,000DM ili $184,000US i garaza je ukljucena u cijenu. Molimo sve zainteresirane da je jave Gosp. Dragi Srsen na telefon: 385 98 287-178. For Sale - a beautiful new apartment in a new apartment building in Trstenik, an elite area in Split. The apartment overlooks the Adriatic Sea, and consists of 3 bedrooms with 3 balconies. The apartment is approximately 1000 square feet (101M2) and is accessible by an elevator. Each floor consists of three luxury apartments. The price is 368,000 DM or $184,000US and the garage is included in the price as well. A copy of the plan is available, and for all details please contact Drago Srsen in Croatia at: 385-98-287-178. Thank you. |
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| CROATIANS IN CALIFORNIA, 1849-1999 New Books Eterovich, Adam S. Croatians in California, 1849-1999. San Carlos, Ca: Ragusan Press, 2000. 640 Pages. Gold Rush pioneers, the wild west-saloons, restaurants, farms, orchards, vineyards, fishermen, music, celebrations, societies, churches and 1000's of individuals. $30.00. Eterovich, Adam S. and Simich, Jerry L. General Index to Croatian Pioneers in California, 1849-1999. San Carlos, Ca.: Ragusan Press, 2000. 370 Pages. An Index by Name, Date, Occupation or Activity, Location, Town of Origin and Reference Source. Abstracted from cemeteries, voting registers, census, society records church records and other source. 45,000 indIviduals. Includes marriage groups. $30.00. Although the Southern United States had Croatians immigrants as early as 1760, they did not organize newspapers, benevolent societies or musical groups. It was the Croatian immigrants in the American West that had a continuity of Croatian organizations starting in the 1850’s. The oldest Croatian newspapers, social organizations, musical groups in America are found in California. A major accomplishment of this study was to properly identify Croatian immigrants as Croatians from Croatia. From 1849 to 1999 almost all Croatians in California were recorded on official documents as Austrian, Turkish, Italian, Hungarian, Yugoslav and locally as Slavonians. Reading this book will leave one with the impression that they were and are Croatians. Very little reference is made to a person having come from Austria, Yugoslavia etc as a country, and when reference was found of such, it was changed to Croatia . The author endeavored to identify the immigrant’s exact place of birth, if possible. Most came from Dalmatia and Istria. Identification was most difficult from 1849-1900 due to misspelling of names by American Census takers, Voting Registers, Cemeteries and other official records. The study covers Croatian religious, music, sports and media activities in California and gold rush pioneers, the wild west, saloons, restaurants, farms, orchards, vineyards, fishermen, music, celebrations, societies, churches and 1000’s of individuals. It also includes 803 Biographies, 115 Illustrations and a Bibliography of over 1000 entries. The Index is by Name, Date, Occupation or Activity, Location, Town of Origin and Reference Source and was abstracted from cemeteries, voting registers, census, society records, church records and other sources. Includes 45,000 individuals-family groups. Adam S. Eterovich 2527 San Carlos Ave. San Carlos, CA 94070 croatians@aol.com www.croatians.com NAZOVITE HRVATSKU TELEFON .23 CENTA ZA MINUTU Za vasu informaciju mi smo provjerili i zakljucili da Globe Kompanija je najkvalitetnija i pruza najbolje cijene u Americi. Nazovite vas telefonski broj direktno i ne placate ekstra mjsecno za tu uslugu. Mozete zvati 24 sata na dan uz istu cijenu. Cijena za Hrvatsku, Bosnu i Hercegovinu je samo .23 centa po minuti. Nazovite Globe Companiju besplatno: Telefonski broj 1-800-935-2429. Novim musterijama nudimo bespalatno Grbove (u boji 8X11) iz Hrvatske, Dalmacije, Slavonije, Istre ili Zagreba. Mi razumujemo i govorimo hrvatski. Adam S. Eterovich distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| 2 articles of interest: Unfinest Hour: Britain and the destruction of Bosnia by Brendan SimmsBritain's low, dishonest Balkan decadeMarcus Tanner13 November 2001 This is a book about grovelling: that is, a book about how the British establishment – Parliament, Army, Foreign Office and Fourth Estate – grovelled before Serbia's murderous dictator Slobodan Milosevic and his storm troopers in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995. Let's start with a photograph. It shows General Sir Michael Rose, British head of the UN peacekeepers in Bosnia, having what looks like a fantastic time with a mass murderer, Ratko Mladic, later indicted as a war criminal by the Hague tribunal. Rose is a central character in the book. Running what Brendan Simms cites as a "a cross between a third-rate public school and a brothel" in his Bosnia HQ, he epitomised everything that was rotten, wrong and plain wicked about British policy in the Balkans. The book shows him to have been a mean-spirited bully towards the Muslims, and obsequious when it came to dealing with Mladic. Such was the climate of philistine Islamophobia at Rose's HQ that when he chanced on President Izetbegovic listening to classical music, he wondered how a Muslim could possibly appreciate its "Christian sentiments". As Simms makes clear, Rose was not isolated in his doltish prejudices. All the departments of the British state and the two main political parties were as good as united in the belief that helping Bosnia (and Croatia) survive the Serb onslaught meant subscribing to some mysterious German conspiracy to take over the world. This phobia informed Britain's hostility to the American proposal to "lift and strike", meaning lift the arms embargo on Bosnia and strike the Serb armies encircling Sarajevo. This opposition took Britain far down the road towards condoning Serbia's genocidal war aims. Listen to this. "The Serbs are one of the bravest, fiercest, most patriotic races on earth and always have been – Greater Serbia is a dream that will never die." The voice of Milosevic? No, this is a British MP, Sir Peter Tapsell, in May 1995, three years after the gigantic massacres in the Drina valley and two months before Mladic exterminated the entire male Muslim population of Srebrenica, all 7,000 of them. And here is Tam Dalyell, the revered Labour "Father of the House", coming up with the strange remark that the Serbs could not be guilty of ethnic cleansing because the Bosnian Muslims were not an ethnic group; they were the grandchildren of apostate Christians who had betrayed their faith under the Turks. Where did Dalyell get this tripe from? It sounds just like history according to Tanjug, Milosevic's "news" agency, which churned out mountains of pseudo-historical rubbish throughout the war. There is a happy ending of sorts. In 1995 the Americans put Britain back in the box. They did what all the British generals and their smart-arsed media allies said was certain to bring the house down: they lifted and they struck. And no, there was no new Nazi German Reich and no Third World War. What happened was that the Greater Serbia that Tapsell had confidently prophesied fell apart, and Sarajevo's miserable three-year siege ended. Some books are hard to put down. This one is hard to pick up and read for any length of time, so excruciating are the remarks and actions it records. Talk about a low, dishonest decade! Reading it made me want to throw my passport on the nearest rubbish heap, so total is the indictment not merely of the British state but of the British intelligentsia, too, from top to bottom and left to right. And how curious that two of the handful of parliamentarians to emerge with any credit on the business were David Trimble and Iain Duncan Smith. Here we are, a few years on, and wondering why so many Muslims round the world – not to mention here – distrust and despise our much-proclaimed "values". Want to know why? This book provides part of the answer. The reviewer's book 'Ireland's Holy Wars' is published this week by Yale Also from the null sectionThe 50 Best collection Global Community? Meet the people who are making it happen Independent Health Insurance Contact Us Special offer ? save over Ł55 -->Book Reviews Melanie McDonaghMonday 12th November 2001 Unfinest Hour: Britain and the destruction of Bosnia Brendan Simms Penguin, 462pp, Ł18.99 ISBN 0713994258 This is an important book, and opportune. It's not just that Slobodan Milosevic is back in the dock at the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, threatening to tell all about the "green light" that British and other western politicians gave his operations. It is the whole international climate that makes this polemical history so timely. Britain and America are busy building up an international coalition of Islamic states against fundamentalist terrorism, which embraces some of the vilest and most repressive regimes in the world, including Sudan and Saudi Arabia. But if you cast your mind back a decade - difficult, I know, for those commentators who think forever in the present tense - there was rather a different scenario. A European country with a history that long predated the Ottoman conquest, which had been recognised by the international community and had a majority of Muslims quite unlike those with whom we now have to deal (viz, C of E in temperament), was violently dismembered. That was Bosnia, whose war was lazily described as a civil war. It wasn't. Without the actions of the Belgrade government in arming and directing the minority Serbs, and without the arsenal of the Yugoslav army, let alone the propaganda directed from Serbia, it would have been impossible for this conflict to have happened as it did. It became a complex, multi-sided war, but the origin was simple enough. It was an attempt by the Bosnian Serb leadership, backed by Milosevic, to cleanse the greater part of Bosnia of its Croats and Muslims. It was an end usefully summed up by that silky euphemism, ethnic cleansing, and it was achieved with remarkable swiftness (70 per cent of the country was cleansed in the first few months) by systematic terrorism, mass rapes, detention/murder camps and conspicuously horrific massacres. The worst single massacre of all happened right at the end of the war, when Ratko Mladic's forces murdered more than 7,000 men in Srebrenica. He remains at large. And when the mad mullahs, from Bradford to Islamabad, start to list the iniquities of the west against Islam, they mention not only the bombing of Iraq, but Srebrenica, too. What such people wilfully ignore is that the US was not to blame for the west's role in that massacre. Quite the contrary. The Tory administration in Britain was principally responsible for the policy of intervention in the Bosnian war on the wrong side. Brendan Simms subjects the policy of Douglas Hurd to merciless analysis; it is remarkable, really, how easily John Major can be discounted on the major foreign policy issue of his premiership. But his responsibility - as well as that of lesser lights such as Douglas Hogg and Malcolm Rifkind - is no less great because they were civilised and, in the case of Rifkind, intelligent people. As the author puts it: "Britain played a particularly disastrous role in the destruction of Bosnia. Her political leaders became afflicted by a particularly disabling form of conservative pessimism which disposed them not only to reject military intervention themselves, but to prevent anybody else, particularly the Americans, from intervening either." Impartiality in the conflict would have been one thing, but Britain's dual policy of the arms embargo, which favoured only the Serbs, and its promotion of a series of plans for ethnic partition in Bosnia translated into taking the Serbian side. The US policy of "lift and strike" (plus Afghan-style food drops for the enclaves ) was a coherent alternative to full-on ground involvement, but that was vetoed by the Brits. As for the humanitarian effort, Simms sees it, for all its palliative effects, as an alibi for political and military non-intervention. For all its measured lucidity, the author's tone is one of contained moral indignation. An academic historian and a lecturer in international affairs at Cambridge, Simms is good at anger management, even though his main argument is that Britain's finest made a bloody hash of the conflict in Bosnia. The book is based on sources available at the time to everyone. There's no first-person pain, no privileged insight - none of the "I was there and it was awful" human-interest journalism. This is a cogent moral argument. Melanie McDonagh reported on the war in Bosnia for the London Evening Standard, among other publications Brian Gallagher distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| Dear All, If you are interested in the complete and realy well done newsletter, please email Mr. Frank Brozovic (fwbroz@home.com) and ask him for the pdf file (Acrobat Reader). CROWN is not forwarding attachments, as of now. When we establish website, we will post letters like this. Job well done CAA, Editor Letter from the President Dear Fellow Croatian Americans: We are all moved by the devastating and tragic events of September 11th. On behalf of the Croatian American Association, the Executive Board would like to express our deep sympathy to the families and friends of the dead and injured during the terrorist attacks. As America has been tragically damaged by the loss of so many, we consider ourselves, as good Americans, to be among the wounded. We wish the President God’s speed in his work to heal the nation in his pursuit of justice and suitable punishment. In these trying times, we must also continue to keep the faith with our fellow Croats in BiH and Croatia. In a letter to CAA, Ante Jelavic, President of Hrvatski Narodni Sabor of BiH, thanked us for all our past support for the Croats of BiH. It is his profound hope that we will continue to support the Croats of BiH. In his words, our support is so important to their battle for survival in the land in which they have lived for centuries. And now I would like to inform you of the recent efforts of the CAA on behalf of the Croats of BiH: Just this year, the CAA founded the Foreign Press Office (FPO) in Mostar. It was FPO personnel who first alerted the foreign press corps of the SFOR raid on the Hercegovacka Banka in Mostar. As you may know, several reporters in the international press have characterized this raid as the “Great Bank Heist” or “Robbery”. Now, when reporters come to BiH, they routinely check with the FPO to get the Croatian perspective before reporting a story. The FPO also issues daily news releases of events in BiH. The Croatian American Association, along with the Croatian Catholic Union, was instrumental in securing the testimony of Cardinal Vinko Puljic and Bishop Ratko Peric at a recent House International Relations Committee hearing. The reports from BiH are that the hearing, more than other single event, helped better the political fortunes of the Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The CAA also initiated and is financing the suit filed by four BiH Croat women against the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe for disenfranchisement of the Croat electorate. With your help, the CAA will continue to fight for justice and equality for the Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina and for justice in Croatia. Together, we can make a difference. Frank Brozovich, DDS President National Officers President, Frank Brozovich First Vice President, Tom Kuzmanovic Regional Vice Presidents, Joe Mandic, Radoslav Maric, Jerko Sumera Secretary, Margie Lisnich Cikoch Assistant Secretary, Janice Jakela Treasurer, Steve Zakic Executive Board John Didovic Lidija Dorkin Grahovac Ilija Letica, Honorary President Mate Mihaljevic Melchoir Masina Vedran Nazor Pero Novak Anthony Peraica, Honorary President Stan Raguz Roy Sender Bob Terzich Ivo Svircic Ante Vukov Washington, D.C. Address CAA 2020 PA Avenue, NW #287 Washington, DC 20006 Phone: 202-429-5543 Fax: 202-429-5543 Chicago Address CAA 3339 S. Halsted Street Chicago, IL 60608 Phone: 773-927-2999 A CAA Publication Nov 2001 Vol. 11 No. 4 distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| Consider this constructive criticism. Aside from the dire need of talented PR people, Croatia desperately needs people with expertise in marketing! Dalmatia is an untapped goldmine! They don't have a clue about marketing tourism, and don't have the infrastructure to support a tourist boom. Is anyone there planning to address this? I have written to the minister of tourism, but never received a reply. Will they ever end the Croatia Airlines stranglehold on the country? That monopoly, with their limited availability, is a major deterrent for American visitors. Croatia is in dire need of tourist dollars and job opportunities for their citizens, but it seems they make so little effort in that regard. Will they ever wake-up? Nancy NancyM3292@aol.com distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| This is from "JOHN M. SARICH" <coxco@execpc.com> : Please double check the following web site on the American Library of Congress where Croatia is not listed as an independent country, but only as a part of Yugoslavia. (There is still East Germany) Molim vas pogledajte slijedece stranice mreze od Americke Kongres Knjiznice gdje ne postoji Hrvatska kao nezavisna zemlja nego samo kao dio Jugoslavije. (Jos uvjek imaju Istocnu Njemacku) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html Please forward this to all the Croats that you know to petition them to change this immediately. Molim vas posaljite svim Hrvatima koje god poznajete da posalju peticiju za promjenu odmah. Ivica distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| Nenad, Last nigth I attended the Vukovar symposium in Washington, DC sponsored by the AMAC - National Capital Group and Dr. Dragan Jezic (President of this AMAC chapter) and Dr. Danica Ramljak. Several people have already contacted me asking how it was, so this will be a very brief rundown on the event for the entire CroWorldNet. AMAC plans to put out a more formal report in the future. Although I tried my best to convince C-SPAN to cover the event, I failed - so to all, please accept my apologies. This event was very well done and received. I want to especially note that Dr. Ramljak put on a highly professional, interesting, well attended event - and that she has now set "the bar high" for any future symposiums and panel discussions here in Washington. My personal thank you to Danica, and thank you to Ambassador Ivan Grsdesic and the entire Croatian Embassy who helped sponsor the event and supplied voluteers, and all others who pitched in. The title of this event was "Out of th Rubble: Impact of a City's Destruction on Country and Society": 10th Anniversary of the Destruction of Vukovar". Panelists and speakers included Amb Grdesic, Dr. Dragan Jezic, Amb Peter Galbraith (Moderator), Amb Drago Stambuk, Ms. Alenka Mirkovic-Nadj (Radio Vukovar), Prof Ognjen Caldarovic (Univ of Zagreb), Dr. Raymond Shelton (NYC), Amb Jeanne Kirkpatrick and Congressman Elliot Engel (who spoke in stead of Congressman Chris Smith - who did not attend and had another professional commitment that could not be avoided). <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Some footnotes:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <UL> <LI>it was held at a conference room at the Leavey Student Center at Georgetown University - an excellent, comforable venue</LI> <LI>about 150 persons attended (my rough guess)</LI> <LI>C-SPAN did not cover it (much to my chagrin) but there were journalists and TV camera persons in attendence and filming from Zagreb and VOA</LI> <LI>the panelists discussed not only Vukovar, but the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon, and the comparisons between these two milestone events </LI> <LI>at the beginning, after Dr. Jezic's warm opening remarks - about seven minutes of film footage of the last days of Vukovar were showed on a large screen for the audience - most of the film taken by RTV Belgrade - this effectively set the solemn tone of the evening and focused the audiences attention</LI> <LI>all of the speakers were excellent, esp Ms. Mirkovic-Nadj and Amb Stambuk</LI> <LI>Ms. Mirkovic-Nadj emphatically described in detail her last days in Vukovar and her experiences and last minute escape; she gave us a powerful first hand account of what it was like during the last weeks and days in Vukovar, and she spoke of the herosim of her radio colleagues and the remaining 16,000 citizens who endured the three month long siege; no one in the audience was left untouched by this heartfelt and dramatic account - by her descriptive account, I felt a sense for what she went through in my opinion, Dr. Stambuk is a "hidden treasure" for all Croatians - he was soft spoken, and poetic, yet powerfully clear; he spoke in both Croatian and English, and recited a small but moving poem commemorating Vukovar and, it must be noted that his English was perfect each word spoken conveyed a deep sense of clarity and emotion that completely compelled the audience to focus on his main message: that Vukovar died so that Croatia could live - that the defenders of Vukovar, by willingly sacrificing their lives for Croatia, in effect "bought" Croatia the time necessary to organize and form a defense strong enough to withstand the Serbian genocidal onslaught; Dr. Stambuk reminded us all of our collective debt to Vukovar and its defenders, and he encouraged the current Croatian gov and all Croats everywhere to raise funds to help rebuild Vukovar and to assist Croatians to return; he suggested that we contact large foundations like the Rockefeller Foundation and others to see if they would be interested in rebuilding Vukovar in all, a very powerful and moving speech the other speakers were all excellent, too I few final notes: thanks again to Dr. Danica Ramljak, Dr. Jezic and the AMC and all others - this was an event we are all proud to have attended there (reportedly) is another upcoming panel discussion in December at The Cato Institute (<A HREF="http://www.cato.org">www.cato.org</A>) here in Washington, DC regarding Stability in the Balkans(?) - not sure - details are not yet posted yet on the Cato website; I understand that the President of the HDZ will be one of the panelists, Dr. Ivo Sanader; the Cato Institute is an extremely well-funded (right-leaning) think tank devoted to individuals rights and freedoms; The Cato has championed the causes and positions of the Serbian American community over the past ten years, and several of their senior analysts have written pro-Serbian articles and reports; some, like Jonathon Clarke, have been guest speakers at <A HREF="http://www.suc.org"> www.suc.org</A> annual conventions and functions; even though not all of the ideas and positions advocated by the Cato Institute are adverse (like reducing the role of the international community in Bosnia - and by definition giving more rights to the Croatian community in Bosnia, this argument cuts both ways and could apply to the RS, too I hope that Dr. Sanader is well prepared for this event!! finally, I think one way we could honor the fallen defenders of Vukovar (ten years after they sacrified their lives for Croatia) and honor the request of Dr.Stambuk, is to try our best (here in the US) to unite and work together effectively, as a team; to that end, I hope that the recent proposal by Marko Puljic - to develop a website to be jointly shared and supoorted by the CAA and NFCA, gets the support it deserves - let us all work toward this goal -as a first step to developing a more effective, stronger, kore united (in any and all ways possible) community here in the US Regards. Tony Margan distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| The American College of Management and technology (ACMT) is an institution of higher education located in Dubrovnik, Croatia. ACMT was created in 1997 as a collaborative effort between the Rochester Institute of technology (RIT) from New York State and Veleuciliste u Dubrovniku - The Polytechnic of Dubrovnik. ACMT offers a fully credited (in both the Untied States and Croatia) two year and four year business degree with a concentration in hospitality and tourism management. the program is taught 100% in English. An Information Session will be held On: MONDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2001, 7:00PM CROATIAN AMERICAN HALL 631 W. 9TH STREET. SAN PEDRO, CA (310) 547-9484 THE INFORMATION SESSION WILL BE CONDUCTED BY ACMT PRESIDENT AND DEAN , DON HUDSPETH FOR FURTHER INFO ON ACMT, PLEASE VISIT THEIR WEBSITE AT : WWW.ACMT.HR distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| Molim vas pogledajte slijedece stranice mreze od Americke Kongres Knjiznice gdje ne postoji Hrvatska kao nezavisna zemlja nego samo kao dio Jugoslavije. (Jos uvjek imaju Istocnu Njemacku) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html Molim vas posaljite svim Hrvatima koje god poznajete da posalju peticiju za promjenu odmah. Ivica "JOHN M. SARICH" <coxco@execpc.com> : distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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