Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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, Ministers and Deputies must belong to one or other of the country's five religious communities...
Real purpose of the service was to protest against the Government's intention to ratify a Concordat with the Vatican, placing the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia on equality with the entrenched Orthodox Church. The congregation of 5,000, largely women and girls, closed in behind the procession, sang hymns and prayed, as it moved through the streets to the Church of St. Sava. Reaching the centre of Belgrade, they faced double ranks of gendarmes, who charged on the congregation. Women fled in terror. The police cracked down with rifle butt and truncheon on the chanting priests. Hoary old Bishop...
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...
Although he became famed as Yugoslavia's finest portrait painter, what Artist Vanka calls "the ironic title of Professor" irked him. Abetted by his wife and by No. i U. S. Yugoslav Louis Adamic (The Native's Return)* he came to the U. S. in 1934, gave exhibitions in Pittsburgh and Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934). Last November he came again for good. Last spring when able Franciscan Father Zagar, having paid off more than half of his $98,000 mortgage, decided to beautify his yellow brick Romanesque church for God's greater pleasure and that...
Awarded. To Nikola Tesla, famed Croatian-born inventor of electrical equipment (Tesla induction motor, Tesla coil, Tesla transformer): Yugoslavia's Grand Order of the White Eagle and Czechoslovakia's Order of the White Lion, top honors of those two nations; by their U. S. Ministers; on Dr. Tesla's 80th (or 81st) * birthday, in Manhattan. As is his birthday custom, Dr. Tesla received the press and announced a series of new marvels, including an apparatus "by which energy in considerable amounts can now be flashed through interstellar space"-but no models, no drawings, no equations...