It began in Zagreb in 1937, when a group of student friends suggested that I write for the Yugoslav press a series of articles on the position of Moslem women. The students were bitter about the “enslavement” of their sisters who had been married in traditional manner. I was not very enthusiastic about attacking the women’s veil or the lattice window, but I was willing to study and report on Bosnian family life. It was the end of the spring-summer term, and we drew up a questionnaire which the students took home with them during their summer vacation. It was to be a small research effort into the domestic way of life of the Bosnian Moslem. [...]

Abgeordneter Dr. Franko Potocnjak: Von der königlichen Regierung des Landes erwarte ich folgende Erklärung: (liest) Auf welche Art und mit welchen Mitteln beabsichtigt die königliche Regierung des Landes, das von Auswanderungsagenturen betrogene und ausgebeutete kroatische und slawonische Volk zu schützen? Unternimmt dieselbe irgendeinen Schritt zur Wiedergutmachung, um das betrogene Volk zu entschädigen? [...]