Author deals with the ideal, socio-economic, national and political views of Slovene liberal and catholic civic politics in the period of the first Yugoslav state, establishing that these views were more alike than different. Both sides rejected communism, fascism and nazism, favoured anti-Semitism, and in the 30's also the class corporate system and a disciplinary, or authoritarian, democracy. Their differences of opinion concerned constant catholic and liberal ideologies and political opposition, and the national problem. As far as the latter is concerned, liberals defended Yugoslav national unitarism and state centralism, while the Catholic party wanted to preserve the Slovene national individuality and demanded an autonomist, federal transformation of the Yugoslav state. At the end of his paper the author stresses the fact that after 1945 the hitherto ideal, socio-economic, national and political civic views became part of the historic memory.