“Terror Over Yugoslavia.”
This is the title of a book by Avro Manhattan, and published this year by Watts and Co., Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.4. The title is justified by the shocking revelations given in the book. In his preface, the author referring to the Roman Catholic Church’s goal, states that it is the total Catholicization of Europe, of the West and of the world. This he writes would be “the most ruthless annihilation of all the basic liberties of modern man.” In the book itself he traces with historical care and facts the part played by the Papacy in promoting the First World War in 1914. Then there is a chapter dealing with Poland and Papal Fascist tyranny in that country, which “crumbled before the legions of Hitler and Stalin. The persecutors had become the persecuted.” This was in 1939. In another part of the world, back in 1918, a new independent kingdom had come into being, including the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, viz., Yugoslavia. This was welcomed by the Allies, but was unwelcome to the Vatican. “Orthodoxy, with the birth of Yugoslavia, had now become paramount in a country the population of which was more than one-third Roman Catholic. Worse still, in addition to permitting Orthodoxy to rule Roman Catholics, Yugoslavia was preventing the latter from setting up a wholly independent R.C. community.” This situation led to the formation, under the Catholic Hierarchy of Croatia, of an illegal Nationalist Army composed of bands of Catholic terrorists called the Ustashi, led by Ante Pavelic. In April, 1941, Hitler attacked the Yugoslav Kingdom and Pavelic supported the Nazi invaders. The design was to break up Yugoslavia and establish a Roman Catholic State of Croatia. Members of R.C. religious organisations were active
in sabotage, acts of terrorism, and in helping to disarm the Yugoslav army, following the German attack. The author gives names, e.g., Father Radoslav Glavas, a Franciscan monk, who on April 10 and 11, 1941, disarmed local gendarmerie, captured a post office, and drew plans to prevent the mobilisation of the Yugoslav Army. This is only one name among many given in this connection. On the above date April 10th, 1941, when the German Army entered the capital of Croatia, one Ustashi leader, Kvaternik, proclaimed the Independent State of Croatia. And while fighting between the Germans and Yugoslav Army continued, Archbishop Stepinac called on the leader of the Ustashi and urged all Croats to support the new Catholic State. Then announcements were published that Serbian Orthodox residents of the new Catholic capital must vacate the city within twelve hours, and that anyone found harbouring an Orthodox would immediately be executed. Then the man Anti Pavelic arrived on the scene. On April 14th Archbishop Stepinac met him and congratulated him on his life-work. The author states that this work was “the creation of the most ruthless Fascist tyranny ever to dishonour Europe.” Now, our Magazine readers will remember the loud condemnation appearing in the press from R.C. quarters, of the present Yugoslav government’s action in sending Archbishop Stepinac to prison after this last war for war crimes. It is provable that they had good cause to do so. Further, on June 28th, 1941, Stepinac, with other bishops, blessed Pavelic as the leader of the Croatian people. Pavelic was the same man who had been sentenced to death in connection with the murders of King Alexander of Yugoslavia and the French Foreign Minister, Barthou. Later, in 1941, the Pope Pius XII. blessed Pavelic. Then began a ruthless government with the object in view of eliminating whoever was not a Catholic Croat. Out of a population of 6,700,000, only 3,300,000 were Croats. The rest were Moslems, Jews and others. Over 2,000,000 were Orthodox Church Serbs. The Orthodox Church being originally a breakaway body from Rome. On June 2, 1941, Dr. Milovan Zanitsch, Minister of Justice, declared: “… There are no ways and means which we Croats will not use to make our country truly ours and to clean it of all Orthodox Serbs.” On August 4th and 5th, 1941, one bench alone, at Zagreb, sentenced to death 185 persons. “In March, 1943, the inmates of the Djakovo Camp were purposely infected with typhus, causing the deaths of 567 persons…; in the camp of Stara Gradiska, 1,000 women were killed… From December, 1941, to February, 1942, at Velika Kosutarica, at Jasenovac, over 40,000 Orthodox Serbs were massacred, while in the Jasenovac Camp, in the summer of 1942, about 66,000 Orthodox Serbs, brought from the villages of Bosnian Marches, were slaughtered, including 2,000 children. To support the terrible facts regarding the children, the author gives an eye-witness’s account. These are only a few instances of the slaughter carried on and recorded in this revealing book. As to details
of diabolical cruelty, we refrain from quoting them here. Avro Manhattan asserts on page 64 that the representatives of the Roman Catholic Church not only knew of such horrors; not a few of them were authorities in these same concentration camps, and had even been decorated by Pavelic—e.g., Father Zvonko Brekalo, of the concentration camp of Jasenovac, who was decorated in 1944; and there were others whose names are given. There are many pages in this book dealing with numerous cases of massacre and utmost barbarity by this Roman Catholic sponsored organisation—the Ustashi—and all in the name of religion to establish a Papal State in Croatia. There is a clear photograph opposite page 68 of Franciscan Bozidar Brajle making a speech at Zemun, 12th July, 1942, escorted by armed Ustashi. A large letter U is fixed in front of the Franciscan. The author declares, “The magnitude of the butchery can best be gauged by the fact that within the first three months, from April to June, 1941, 120,000 people perished thus.” The Ustashi were compared to Christ, as seen in a quotation from Nedelja, in its issue of June 6, 1941, “Christ and the Ustashi and Christ and the Croatians march together through history . . .” And Catholic leaders, priests and indeed bishops were given positions in the Ustashi State, declares Manhattan in this astounding book of his. He gives more than sufficient evidence to prove that “numerous Roman Catholic priests and monks, some of whom were not even attached to the Ustashi formations, carried out indiscriminate executions with their own hands.” All this was done in the name of the Roman Catholic religion, in these modern times, being a complete repetition of bloody persecution perpetrated by the Papacy in days long ago against those stigmatised by the Vatican as heretics because outside the fold of the Roman Church and daring to challenge the authority of the Pope, the Man of Sin, and the doctrines of devils imposed upon his deceived and priest-ridden adherents. From these terrible revelations it is easy to conclude that Rome has not changed as to its basic policy and agreed methods to obtain domination for the Roman Catholic faith, where and when that policy of persecution of Protestants and others can be put in operation. Probably even many Roman Catholics to-day, in this country and America, are unaware of these facts, being deceived by the modern propaganda of their Church, amid the liberties enjoyed by all in Britain and America. And many Protestants and non-Catholics are uninformed and ignorant of the evil principles still held by the real rulers of the R.C. Church at the Vatican. The recent history of Croatia, as disclosed in this book, Terror Over Yugoslavia, reveals the truth. When the Lord Jesus Christ comes in the power of His Holy Spirit, through the gospel, to bring all nations to do Him service, then one obstacle to this will be swept away in His own way and time—that is, the whole system and power of Papal Rome.