Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier Dr. Milan Stoyadinovich, six members of his Cabinet, and 141 Deputies, it occurred last week that they might have to become Jews, Moslems, Catholics or Protestants. Though all strictly belonged to the Serbian Orthodox Church, they had been "excommunicated" as result of an Orthodox-Government row. The Orthodox Church disapproved of the Government's recently coming to terms with the Vatican; seemed to suspect moreover that the Government had had a hand in the death of the Orthodox Patriarch, His Holiness Varnava (TIME, Aug. 2). The Premier's problem was urgent because under Yugoslavia's Constitution...
Bearded priests and bishops, wearing the ornate robes of the Orthodox Church, shuffled down the steps of Belgrade's Cathedral one night last week. They had just prayed for the health of the Serbian Orthodox Patriarch, His Holiness Varnava, slowly sinking from an attack of blood poisoning. Some angry Serbs muttered it was "political poisoning...
...when "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman" Dr. Eduard Benes was elected President of Czechoslovakia (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935) everyone knew his way of doing things would be more on the American plan. Last week Dr. & Mrs. Benes arrived at Belgrade to face not the usual assemblage of many Serbian loafers rounded up by police and given a few coppers to cheer, but a mighty ovation such as President Roosevelt got in South America...
...Bound together in all matters of faith and by mutual recognition of the Pope as Christ's Vicar on Earth, they are: Ambrosian (Milan), Mozarabic (Spain), Chaldean, Malabar, Coptic, Abyssinian, Pure Syriac, Armenian, Maronite, Pure Greek, Italo-Greek, Georgian, Melkite, Bulgarian, Serbian, Rumanian, Russian, Ruthenian...
...leave of absence last year, he spent the greater portion of his time in Yugoslavia, studying Serbian ballads. He gave a talk on this subject at Leverett House several days before his departure for California...