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Priests in heavily ornate robes stood in the pulpits of the principal Serbian Orthodox Churches in Yugoslavia last Sunday, and slowly read out the names of 141 members of Parliament, nine Cabinet Ministers, including that of Yugoslavia's Premier Milan Stoyadinovich. In Belgrade stolid worshipers listened in grim silence, but in other churches congregations throughout the countryside piously ejaculated "May He Be Damned!" as each name was pronounced...
...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...
Prince Paul, the Regent of Yugoslavia, virtually hid himself in Slovenia last week until Premier Milan Stoyadinovich, an Orthodox, and Minister of Interior Father Anton Koroshetz, a Roman Catholic priest, should have succeeded or failed to jam the Concordat through the Skupshtina (Lower House). Sick deputies were brought in-even on stretchers-to vote and the Cabinet finally...
...Orthodox Synod proceeded to excommunicate temporarily almost every Orthodox member of the Cabinet this week, including Premier Stoyadinovich, whom it denied the ministrations of the Church, and implied that Regent Paul might have been excommunicated had he not so carefully stood aloof. Cautiously the Regent returned from Slovenia, hastened to the Cathedral, kissed the ikon upon the bier of the Patriarch, fervently prayed and was besought to "Dismiss Stoyadinovich...
...this shook Premier Stoyadinovich's pro-Italianism and pro-Germanism there was no sign in Belgrade that such was the case. Journalists close to the Yugoslavic Royal Government heard he had told President Benes that Yugoslavia cannot consider herself bound to send troops to Czechoslovakia's aid in case of a German attack. If true, this piece of information practically wrecked the Little Entente then & there, but moreover the Stoyadino-vich newsorgan Samouprava keynoted: "Let us all remember that Haile Selassie paid the penalty for entrusting his destiny to the Democratic States by the loss of his Crown...