The renaming has drawn strong protest from Croatian intellectuals. [Mile] Budak was the author of an anti-Semitic law banning Jews from the arts and other public offices in World War II.
Members of the commission for Renaming of Streets and Squares said that their decisions could be justified by Budak's literary work, the newspaper reported...
After the establishment of the [Ante] Pavelic's Ustasha regime in Zagreb, Budak published and cosigned the "Law on Protection of People's and Aryan Culture of Croatian People."