Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appointment in Yugoslavia...
...grew up in the school of daily journalism before it was the fashion to qualify names used in news stories with derogatory designations. In your piece on the recent visit of a group of Protestant clergymen to Yugoslavia [TIME, Aug. 25], you designated me as "anti-Roman Catholic editor of The Churchman, a gulliberal who says he is not a Communist fellow traveler." The implications to any intelligent reader are obvious, to wit: that I am an enemy of the Roman Catholic religion; that I am a babe-in-the-woods in intelligence and ability as an observer; that though...
...Churchman during the past 15 years, or even the past year, you would not have been shocked to discover what we have consistently said . . . about . . . the political activities of the Roman hierarchy. . . . It is strange reasoning . . . to assert that a report of facts on freedom of worship in Yugoslavia is openly defending the character and motives of the Tito regime...
Divide & Weaken. The free-for-all was finally joined by somebody who really knows Yugoslavia, even though he has not been there for six years: the Rt. Rev. Iriney Georgevich, Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Dalmatia, now living in exile in the U.S. Said he: "I was shocked. . . . I cannot understand how as servants of God [the seven Protestants] can accept so gladly an invitation from one of the most ruthless tyrannies the world ever has known. I can only ask these clergymen whether they would have thought it proper to accept an invitation from Hitler. . . . The tactics used by Tito...
...committee of seven clergymen had not been "handpicked" by Tito, some of its members had apparently gone to Yugoslavia predisposed to a rosy view. One of the visitors, Dr. Claude C. Williams of Birmingham, Ala., was "exposed" last week by the New York World-Telegram's Red-hunting Frederick Woltman as an ex-holder of a party card...