Milan Pribićević

Milan Pribićević (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Прибићевић) was an ethnic Serb Yugoslav who led ORJUNA, a short-lived but influential fascist party in Yugoslavia during the 1920s that supported Yugoslav nationalism, promoted the creation of a corporatist state, and attacked communism, democracy, Jews, separatists, Croatian and Serbian nationalists.

Milan Pribićević was born in Kostajnica in 1877. He came from a well-known Serbian family of politicians in Croatia. He had three brothers, Svetozar Pribićević, Adam Pribićević and Valerijan, all of them were writers and politically involved in every day affairs, and so was Milan, an Austrian officer who defected to Serbia in 1904. When the Balkan wars broke out, Milan was the first to enlist.

On the eve of World War I, Milan Pribićević, a highly decorated veteran of the Balkan wars and one of the founders of Narodna Odbrana, began preparing his association which had as an object the formation and equipment of bodies of volunteers for the coming war against Austria-Hungary.

There was no serious attempt to recruit volunteers in the United States until the arrival of the Serbian military mission headed by Colonel Milan Pribićević in November 1916. One of the reasons for this lay in the neutrality of America in the war until near the end of 1917 when it too joined the Allies. Milan Pribićević visited the United States that winter of 1916-1917 to recruit as many volunteers among the U.S. newcomers for the cause as he could. He was joined by Helen Draper, a board member of the New York chapter of the American Red Cross and her sister sculptor Malvina Hoffman, who was involved in war causes, as secretary of the American-Sebian Relief Society in World War I and with the Red Cross.

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