Criminal Case File on Ivan Cankar

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the famous criminal trial against Ivan Cankar. Namely, in April 1913 Cankar held a speech Slovenians and Yugoslavs. He saw the solution to the Yugoslav question in a political union into a Yugoslav republic. “We are brothers by blood and at least cousins by language” was his view. But he also uttered famous words “let’s leave Austria in her own crap”. On August 21 he was sentenced to one week in prison due to his “offence against public order “.