The Book Catholic Terror Today hurled across St. Paul's Cathedral by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The evening of January 2, 1969 was an historical one, it being the
first time that a Roman Catholic Cardinal had been invited to enter and
preach in St. Paul's since the Reformation. A veritable triumph for the
Catholic Church and a further blow to disintegrating Protestantism at
large. That evening the Archbishop of Canterbury was solemnly heading a
procession to meet Cardinal Heenan, Primate of England, inside St.
Paul's Cathedral, which though the main Protestant Church of England,
was nevertheless packed with Catholic priests and nuns, when he came
suddenly to a halt. A Londoner, Miss Amy Phillips (above with the
author), having stepped from her pew, courteously handed a copy of the
present book to the Archbishop. The Archbishop smiled, took the book,
graciously thanked the lady, then read the title Catholic Terror Today.
At such sight "his heavy jaw cracked as if he had masticated an early
Christian." Thereupon in a most unecumenical and unepiscopal fit of
anger, he hurled the book across the Cathedral, almost hitting a
Catholic nun. A few days before a Catholic student, upon noticing the
same book in the hands of a fellow student at Queen's University,
Belfast, had thrown the book to the ground, jumped upon it and kicked
it with uncontrollable rage. An additional demonstration of the
intelligent objectivity of the Catholic intelligentsia.A Londoner, Miss
Amy Phillips, having stepped from her pew, courteously handed a copy of
the book to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Archbishop smiled, took
the book, graciously thanked the lady and then, holding his mitre, read
the title. After reading the book's title "his heavy jaw cracked as if
he had masticated an early Christian." Thereupon, after a moment of
stupefaction, in a most unecumenical fit of anger, he hurled the book
across the Cathedral. The book hit a couple of Catholic nuns, who made
several signs of the cross.
The reactions of the Archbishop of Canterbury and that of the two
Catholic nuns were not exceptions. Copies of the book, which some
Protestants had managed to have in the library in Scotland, were handed
back with most of the pages and the pictures of the Croatian atrocities
heavily burned.
A Catholic student, after the Ulster Hall meeting, upon noticing a copy
of the book in the hands of a fellow student at Queen's University,
Belfast, had seized the book, thrown the book to the ground, jumped
upon it and kicked it with uncontrollable rage. An additional
demonstration of the intelligent objective of the Catholic
Intelligantia, in Ireland, Britain or, for that matter, in the USA.
The evidence of the Croatian atrocities, in short, had become
unacceptable. The Catholic Church could not have connived to their
happening. That was also the natural reaction of many non-Catholics as
well. Yet, the atrocities occurred. The Catholics were shocked more
than anybody else because, having associated their church with peace,
prayers and forgiveness, they could not associate the same church with
horrendous political and racialist attitudes. This occurred also in
Ireland where Catholics and Protestants had been murdering each other
for decades, before, during and after the Second World War; and where
the war between the two factions, Northern Irish Protestants and
Northern and Southern Catholics, is still raging as ferociously as ever.
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From left to right: Sava Durbaba, the author, and Toma Stojsavljevich.
The 12 April of 1941, the uncle of Toma Stojsavljelich, Mile
Stoisavljelich, who was a Serb Orthodox Member of the Yugoslav
Parliament of Belgrade, was arrested by the Ustashi together with two
of his Orthodox friends, the Reverend Milosh Mandie, an Orthodox
priest, and Dr. Turleica. They massacred all three, without even the
excuse of a formal accusation.
On 13 June 1942, the Ustashi executed the father of Sava, Rade Durbaba,
in his native village of Bralovci. After which they amused themselves
by torturing Suvu's thirteen year old sister. This they did by choking
her, at ever longer intervals, until she was finally strangled. Not
content with it, they crushed all her bones to such an extent that most
of the girl's members were reduced to almost pulp.
They then cut the tongue of another young woman of the same village,
cutting holes in both her cheeks. She was eventfully stabbed to death.
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Chapter 17
THE AMBASSADOR AND THE POPE'S NUNCIO IN A RED EMBASSY, A VATICAN VICTORY
The Yugoslavian Embassy had supported the disclosure of the book, and
the book itself, for many years as a vehicle to make known the Croatian
massacres. Because of it, the present author had been welcomed to the
Embassy during various national celebrations and during the reception
of famous political personalities.
It was during one of these receptions that the present author came face
to face with an unexpected surprise. After having been introduced to
the new Yugoslavian Ambassador and having discussed with him the need
of a new Serbian edition of the book, the Ambassador replied in a
somewhat icy tone that such an edition was no longer necessary. Not
only the Serbian edition, he added, but even less an English edition.
Asked the reason for such a sudden change of policy, the Ambassador
explained that it was no longer necessary to expose the Croatian
problem. Indeed, he repeated, the exposure would do a lot of harm to
Yugoslavian and to international relations.
When the present author pointed out that the Jews, far from ceasing to
relate and expose the Nazi massacres of Jews in the German
concentration camps, were mounting an ever vigorous campaign, worldwide
lest the world forget the Nazi horrors, the Ambassador repeated that
the Croatian "problem," as he called it, was somewhat different and no
longer needed a reminder.
The attitude of the Ambassador had been so sudden and radical that the
present writer realized at once what he had suspected for months;
namely that a "rapprochement" between the Vatican and President Tito, a
born Catholic, had taken place.
The two, in fact, had been conducting secret negotiations for a long
time with the view of solving the problems of the Catholic dissidents
inside Communist Yugoslavia, the Catholic clergy who had
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Title of the book which the Yugoslav Ambassador to England refused to
publish again after Avro Manhattan encountered the Pope's Ambassador in
the Yugoslav Embassy.
The Ambassador told the author that such literature was no longer
useful. The Croatian massacres, he said, should be forgotten. After the
encounter of Avro Manhattan with the new Yugoslav Ambassador and the
Pope's Nuncio, Yugoslavia changed her policy and befriended the
Vatican. The Croatian horrors were relegated to the background. The
Vatican scored another victory. The edition of the book in English,
however, continued to sell all over the world and was sought by many as
a reminder of the danger of religious fanaticism.
been imprisoned and the Catholic Croats whom Tito had considered "war
criminals." They had agreed upon a general amnesty for the lot,
including amnesty for those Catholics who had collaborated with the
occupying Nazis. The most telling, however, was a general amnesty for
the priests, monks and other clergy who had been the backbone of the
independent Catholic State of Croatia.
That meant a change in the relationship with the Vatican, at home and
abroad. Hence, a prompt minimization of the Croatian atrocities and
cooperation with a new "reformed" Croatian Catholicism. A real
diplomatic triumph for the Vatican.
The negotiations had been carried out by Mgr. F. Seper who had been
appointed Head of the Sacred Congregation for the Faith (formerly the
Holy Office of the Inquisition). Mgr. Seper, as already mentioned, had
been nominated Archbishop of Zagreb, as a successor of Archbishop
Stepinac who also had been the personal friend and associate of Ante
Pavelic, and of Artuckovic, the Interior Minister of the Catholic State
of Croatia.
Mgr. Seper, who personally was a very honest and capable man, proved to
be an even more subtle negotiator. He convinced the rabid anti-Vatican
Communist Tito that a reconciliation with the Vatican would have given
Communist Yugoslavia the much-needed support of the USA. The U.S.'s
financial help, not to say diplomatic protection, had become a must
since Soviet Russia had sinister designs upon a Yugoslavia that had
detached herself from the block of Eastern Europe which had been
reduced to the state of Russian satellites.
The argument seen in political terms had been a valid one and,
therefore, an acceptable one. Tito decided to accept the Vatican's
offer. Hence the radical change of policy concerning the Croatian
problem. Yugoslavia wished to forget the holocaust and did not wish to
be reminded about it, but above all did not wish to annoy the Vatican
with even the memory of it.
The present author's surprise encounter with the new Ambassador was
soon followed by yet another one when he came face to face with an
individual wearing a clerical collar and a violet shirt. An Embassy
official thereupon hastened to introduce the present author to the
personage. The personage was none other than the new Papal Nuncio to
Great Britain, that is the Pope's Ambassador. His name was Monsignor
Cardinale. A pleasant individual who, while shaking hands, gave an
enigmatic smile that indicated a silent victory. The encounter was the
first and also the last, with both the Yugoslavian ambassador and the
Papal Nuncio to Great Britain. It was also the author's last invitation
to the Embassy.
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