This article reviews the linguistic and political views of the Croatian language at the end of the 60s and early 70s of the 20th century. The first part presents the results of research describing the event, the situation before and after the publication of the text of Declaration on the Name and Status of the Croatian Literary Language in 1967 and a brief overview of the historical development of the Croatian language. The second part, which is more extensive, brings a comprehensive analysis of newspaper articles to show a vision of subjective and objective opinion on the Declaration as well as the negative effects that are gradually increased. Political views refer to the views of the leading institutions in the Declaration, inter-ethnic relations in the Second Yugoslavia and impacts amend the Constitution, which is associated with the Declaration. Linguistic views include the impacts and consequences of the Declaration, the sentence and the fate of the signatory and the importance of the Declaration on the future and present of Croatian (literary) standard language. The linguistic analysis of the use of different newspapers that are for the largest number coming out then, and they are: Telegram, Borba, Vjesnik and Glas Istre eventually brings its own conclusion based on the political and linguistic facts about the Declaration.