- Vjekoslav Vrančić
Vjekoslav Vrančić was a member of the
Croatia nWorld War II Ustaše regime.Vrančić was born in
Ljubuški onMarch 25 ,1904 .He reached the rank of
Major in the Ustaša forces. More significantly, he held the government posts of Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and later Minister of Labour of theIndependent State of Croatia .He managed to escape from the country after the war and made it to
Argentina . He lived the rest of his life there until his death inBuenos Aires in 1990. He was active in the Croatian community of Argentina. There he formed the weekly paper "Hrvatski narod". [ [http://damp.nsk.hr/arhiva/vol1/273/3818/www.hic.hr/hrvatski/hid/hid6.htm Croats in Argentina] ]At the
Croatian National Council 's parliament in 1980 Vrančić stated that the new Croatian nation could not rely on the tradition of the Independent State of Croatia, and would have to minimize that tradition as much as possible. [ [http://www.vjesnik.hr/razno/Dijaspora/Default.asp?c=8 Parliament in London confirmed the victory of the moderate current and the loss of the most hardline concepts in the battle for the formation of a Croatian state] ]Vrančić was awarded the honorary title "Vitez" ("
knight ") and as such the title is often included with his name.References
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