Peasants Back Catholic Clergy Against Reds
PRAGUE, August 16 (Rec 10 a.m.). —Slovak peasants have threatened to fire,their crops if the Communist authorities molest the Roman Catholic clergy, according to Church authorities here today. The peasant opposition in Slovakia is reported to be causing the Communists serious embarrassment in the operation of their policy towards the Church.
Already numerous cases have occurred in which fire in farm buildings and crops has caused heavy damage. The security police attribute the number of recent fires in Moravia to “faulty electrical circuits.” Barns holding harvested grain have also been burned. Three were destroyed in Slovak Moravia and five in Nemochovice, near Bucovice, about 20 miles east of Brno. Church sources said they regarded the Slovak threat and reported cases of fires as a demonstration of peasant dissatisfaction with the Communist policy towards the Church and of directing agriculture into more Socialist forms.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1949, Page 6
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