SOVIET-JUGOSLAV TALKS
Sir, —On May 26, 1955, a New Zealand Catholic newspaper contained this news from Trieste: “Elaborate precautions were taken by Marshal Tito’s authorities in Dalmatia and Herzegovina to prevent the truth about the persecution of religion reaching the former French President, Mr Vincent Auriol, when he visited Jugoslavia. Franciscans were bluntly told not to dare mention the case of the. late Father Leo Petrovic, 0.F.M., Franciscan Provincial of the province of Herzegovina, who was killed by the Partisans on February 14, 1945. The priest’s body was thrown the River Narenta and never recovered.” Father Luke Fransen, recently expelled from China, told how Communist soldiers scattered the Sacred Hosts, of their shooting of a 13-year-old Chinese girl who, though mortally wounded, dragged herself to the nearest Host, and consumed It before she died. Communist “peace” pamphlets are hypocritical enough to portray the Pope in defence of Soviet Russia. —Yours, etc., D. DAVEY. June 7, 1955.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27679, 8 June 1955, Page 3
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