The Vatican's Holocaust The sensational account of the most horrifying religious massacre of the 20th century: Chapter 3 THE BIRTH OF A MONSTER: THE INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC STATE OF CROATIA By Avro Manhattan

Chapter 3 



THE BIRTH OF A MONSTER: THE INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC 

STATE OF CROATIA 

The Yugoslavs were stunned. But not for long. Two days later, on March 27, 
1941, an anti-Nazi coup d'etat, carried out by General Mirkovic, unsaddled the 
pro-Nazi Yugoslav Government. While the rest of Yugoslavia celebrated the 
event in Zagreb, circulars, full of threats, were found on the doors of Serbs. 
Pavelic, who only a few days before had been relegated to the background, 
suddenly found himself the centre of feverish activities. Orders were conveyed 
to all the Ustashi, inside and outside Yugoslavia, to be ready for action. Ustashi 
leaders from Germany and Italy moved at speed towards the Yugoslav frontier. 
The German Army moved with them. On April 6, 1941, Hitler attacked the 
Yugoslav Kingdom. 

Many of Pavelic's followers joined the Nazi invaders; others directed their arms 
against Yugoslavia; still others turned plain traitors — e.g. Colonel Kren, an 
active fanatic, a secret member of Pavelic's army, an Ustashi who flew from 
Belgrade airdrome to give the Nazi Air Force the secret location of all 
Yugoslav aircraft, with the result that the Yugoslav war planes were destroyed 
on the ground by Nazi bombers, which Kren directed. Thanks to Ustashi Kren's 



action, the whole of the Yugoslav Air Force was thus annihilated in one single 
blow. 

While Belgrade was still burning after the Nazi air raids, Ante Pavelic 
addressed the Croats by radio: "Croat soldiers," were his words, "use all your 
weapons against all the Serbian soldiers and officers. We are already fighting 
shoulder to shoulder with our new Allies, the Germans and the Italians." 

On April 7 the Yugoslav Government left Belgrade for Montenegro. Two days 
later, on April 9, Vladko Macek, its Vice-President, in his turn deserted it. 
Macek was a Croat, a Catholic, and the leader of the Catholic Croat Peasant 
Party. Yet this individual, while acting as the leader of that Party, and, indeed, 
as Vice-President of the Yugoslav Government, was simultaneously plotting 
with Fascist Italy for the disintegration of his country. As early as 1939 Macek 
had, in fact, established contact with Mussolini, who had agreed to pay him 20 
million diners to finance his bold Separatist plot — that is, to destroy Yugoslavia 
in order to set up a Catholic Fascist State of Croatia, as was subsequently 
disclosed by none other than the Fascist Foreign Minister, Count Cianojll 

The Minister of Commerce, another Catholic, followed Macek's example, soon 
imitated by a third Minister, who treacherously and for a long time had been a 
secret member, not only of the Ustashi, but also of Nazi Intelligence. He was, 
in fact, a liaison with the main Nazi Intelligence Agent in Yugoslavia, D. 
Tomljenovitch, former Austrian officer and a Catholic, to whom he passed 
details of all the secret deliberations on defense which took place in the 
Yugoslav Cabinet, of which he was a member. 

Following all this, while Slavko Kvaternik, having arrived in Zagreb from Italy, 
announced the formation of the Independent State of Croatia, Macek incited his 
followers to recognize the New State: "I invite all the members of the Peasant 
Party of Croatia to recognize the change, to help the New Croatia, and, above 
all, loyally to obey all its laws. "[21 Within a few days all the secret members of 
Pavelic's Catholic terrorist organization within the civil administration and the 
Yugoslav Army came to the fore, working havoc wherever they appeared; and 
this to such an extent that they quickly succeeded in paralyzing the prosecution 
of the war against Hitler. 

Standing in sinister prominence among them all, the Ustashi initiated vigorous 
fighting in the rear of the Yugoslav units; while others within the Yugoslav 
Army carried out fifth-column activities to such an extent that nothing could be 
done according to plan. Ustashi officers like Colonel Kren fled to the Germans, 
to whom they disclosed vital military information. Units of Macek's "Peasant 



Guard" immediately became Ustashi units and disarmed units of the Yugoslav 
Army. The widespread disorganization created by Catholic extremists was such 
that it turned out to be one of the paramount factors enabling the swift Nazi 
conquest of Yugoslavia. 

This was confirmed by Lorkovitch, Minister of the Foreign Affairs of the 
Independent State of Croatia, in full Parliament (February, 1942): 

It was thanks to the support of the Croat people and of the Croat 
revolution, which have shortened the duration of the war in 
Yugoslavia, greatly reduced the losses of the Germans and 
Italians, and permitted, at the Eastern frontier of Serbia, the death- 
blow to be given to Yugoslavia. T31 

The promotion of such a large treacherous body within the country would have 
been impossible without the active cooperation of the Catholic Church. 
Pavelic's terrorist bands, the Ustashi, had been morally and financially 
encouraged and supported by her. Indeed, their backbone had been formed by 
priests, monks, and even bishops. Monasteries had been used as the clandestine 
headquarters of the Ustashi long before the Nazi attack. Secret separatist and 
military activities had been disguised for years under the cloak of religion. The 
Catholic priesthood in Croatia, Herzegovina, and Dalmatia had repeatedly 
convoked so-called Eucharistic Congresses which in reality were for extremist 
political purposes (e.g. those held in Pozega as late as 1940, under the fictitious 
name of Mary's Congregation). The sundry semi-military, illegal terrorist 
movements were likewise screened by the mantle of religion. Most of them 
were affiliated with Catholic organizations under the direct supervision of 
Catholic Action, which was strictly controlled by the Catholic Hierarchy — e.g. 
the Brotherhood of the Crusaders, with about 540 societies and 30,000 
members; the Sisterhood of the Crusaders, with 452 societies and 19,000 
members; the Catholic Student Associations, Domagoj, and such like. 

Most of the members of such religious organizations were active in sabotage, 
acts of terrorism, and a good number of them even participated in the 
treacherous disarming of the Yugoslav Army following Hitler's attack. As soon 
as they came into the open, many of them appeared transformed into Ustashi 
authorities, functionaries in Ustashi commissions, heads of district councils, or 
even of concentration camps. The President of the Great Crusaders' 
Brotherhood, Dr. Feliks Niedzelski, was nominated Ustashi Vice-Governor of 
Bosnia and administrative head for the Ustashi youth, while Father Grga 
Peinovic, also a director of Catholic Crusaders, was appointed President of the 



Ustashi Central Propaganda Office.[4lMany of the priests of the Crusaders' 
Brotherhood and of Catholic Action took or 



Archbishop Stepinac, Head of the Croatian Hierarchy, welcomes Ante Pavelic at the opening of the Ustashi 
Government in Zagreb, February 23, 1942. 

Stepinac was a steady, zealous and efficient partner of Pavelic's Dictatorship. He supported the Ustashi 
Government from the beginning until the end. Indeed, even after Ustashi Croatia collapsed following the 
disintegration of Nazi Germany. 

Stepinac was not only the Head of the Council of Croatian Bishops and of the Committee which carried out a 
policy of forcible conversions, he was none other than the Supreme Military Apostolic Vicar of the Ustashi 
Army. 

When Ustashi Croatia fell in 1945 as a result of the defeat of Nazi Germany and Pavelic had to run for his life, 
Archbishop Stepinac, in a vain effort to save the Regime, succeeded him as Head of Ustashi Croatia. 

Stepinac ordered special ceremonies in all the Catholic churches on Pavelic's birthday, and he frequently 
invoked the blessing of God upon the Ustashi. 

gave military training, or were sworn officers of the Ustashi formations — e.g. 
Father Radoslav Cilavas, a Franciscan monk, who on April 10 and 11, 1941, 
disarmed the local gendarmerie, captured the Post Office, and drew local plans 
to prevent the mobilization of the Yugoslav Army; or Father Chaplain Ivan 
Miletic, who, in collaboration with the Nazis, led bands of guerrillas against the 
Yugoslav Government. In Herzegovina the centre of the Ustashi movement 
was located in the Franciscan monastery and in the high school of Siroki 
Brijeg. 

On the same day as the German Army had entered the capital of Croatia, one of 
the chief Ustashi leaders, Kvaternik, proclaimed the Independent State of 
Croatia (April 10, 1941), and, while fighting between the Germans and the 
Yugoslav Army was still going on in the Bosnian mountains, Archbishop 
Stepinac called on the leader of the Ustashi and urged all Croats to support the 
New Catholic State. On that very day the newspapers of Zagreb carried 
announcements to the effect that all 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. On April 13 
Ante Pavelic reached Zagreb from Italy. On the 14th Archbishop Stepinac went 



personally to meet him and to congratulate him on the fulfillment of his life- 
work. What was Pavelic's life-work? The creation of perhaps the most ruthless 
Fascist tyranny ever to dishonour Europe. 

The establishment of Pavelic's dictatorship was rapid, efficient, and ruthless. 
Immediately on his return he reorganized the Ustashi throughout the New State 
by setting up local branches, known by the names of Stozer, Logor, Tabor, and 
Zbir, through which he initiated a veritable reign of terror. The objective of his 
systematic crimes of murder, torture, pillage, and wholesale massacre was 
nothing less than the total extermination of all non-Catholic, anti-Fascist 
elements in the New State. 

Simultaneously with the reorganization of the Ustashi, Pavelic set up a political 
body modeled on the Nazi Gestapo and on the Fascist OVRA, called Ustashka 
Nadzorna Sluzba (Ustashi Supervisory Service), which exercised absolute 
control over the whole population. This Ustashi Gestapo was composed of 
thirteen different types of police: Ustashi Police; Intelligence Service; Defense 
Police; Security 



At the opening of the Ustashi Parliament, Archbishop Stepinac, after 
offering special prayers to God in a ceremony in the Cathedral, ordered 
the singing of a solemn Te Deum, as thanks to the Almighty for the 
establishment of the Ustashi Dictatorship. 

On April 13, 1941, Pavelic reached Zagreb. On the 14th, Archbishop 
Stepinac blessed him. 

At Easter, 1941, Stepinac solemnly announced from Zagreb Cathedral 
the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia. 

On April 28, 1941, he issued a Pastoral Letter, ordering the Croatian 
clergy to support the new Ustashi State. 

On June 28, 1941, Stepinac, with other Bishops, visited Pavelic. After 
promising total cooperation with him, Stepinac prayed for him. "We 
implore the Lord of the Stars to give his divine blessings to you, the 
leader of our people," were Stepinac's words. 



after having prayed for him and for the Ustashi. 



Service; Supreme Office for Public Order and Security; County Police; 
Gendarmerie; Military Police; Defense Squads; Security Service of the 
Poglavnik, a body-guard; Reserve Gendarmerie; Police Guard; and Industrial 
Police. Parallel with this, Pavelic set up courts extraordinary, entitled Prijeke 
Sud; Pokretni Prijeki Sud (Mobile Courts); Izvanredni Narodni Sud (People's 
Court Extraordinary); and Veliki Izvanredni Narodni Sud (Grand People's 
Court Extraordinary). These courts, thirty-four in number, passed sentences 
after a procedure which did not offer the defendant any possibility of defense. 
The judges, all sworn Ustashi, condemned without examination of the charge, 
on the basis of collective responsibility. The courts could pronounce only death 
sentences, against which no appeal was allowed. 

In addition to passing special legislation against anyone who refused to accept 
the New Croatia, to permit police organizations to arrest, deport, and execute at 
will, special tribunals to condemn to death on the flimsiest of pretexts, and, 
indeed, to mobilize the whole machinery of the State for legalized terror, 
Pavelic terrorized by means of a Statutory Order "For the direction of the 
Undesirable and Dangerous Persons to Compulsory Detention in Concentration 
Camps," dated September 25, 1941. In virtue of this, the Ustashi Supervisory 
Police could at will send "any undesirable persons dangerous to public 
order.. .to compulsory detention in concentration camps" (pares. I and 3). No 
appeal was allowed against any such decisions. 

Within the briefest of periods, Pavelic and his Ustashi had become the arbiters 
of the freedom, the life, and the death of all men, women, and children in the 
New State of Croatia, which in a matter of weeks was thus converted into the 
most ruthless Fascist State in the world, including Nazi Germany. Yet what was 
the attitude of the Catholic Church when faced by such an abominable 
transformation? The Catholic Church, represented by the Hierarchy and the 
Catholic Press, following Stepinac's example, promptly initiated a feverish 
campaign of praise for Pavelic and Hitler. A leader of the Crusaders wrote: 

God, who directs the destiny of nations and controls the hearts of 
Kings, has given us Ante Pavelic and moved the leader of a 
friendly and allied people, Adolf Hitler, to use his victorious 
troops to disperse our oppressors and enable us to create an 
Independent State of Croatia. Glory be to God, our gratitude to 
Adolph Hitler, and infinite loyalty to chief Ante Pavelic." T51 



A few days later, on April 28, 1941, Stepinac issued a pastoral letter, asking the 
whole Croatian clergy to support and defend the New Catholic State of Croatia. 

At Easter, 1941, Stepinac announced from the Cathedral of Zagreb the 
establishment of the Independent State of Croatia, thus giving the solemn 
sanction of Church and Vatican to Pavelic's work. On June 28, 1941, Stepinac, 
with other bishops, went to see Pavelic. After promising the wholehearted 
cooperation of the entire Hierarchy, the Archbishop solemnly blessed Pavelic, 
as the leader of the Croatian people: "While we greet you cordially as head of 
the Independent State of Croatia, we implore the Lord of the Stars to give his 
divine blessings to you, the leader of our people." Pavelic, it should be 
remembered, was the same man who had been sentenced to death for political 
assassinations: once by the Yugoslav courts, and once by the French, for the 
murders of King Alexander and the French Foreign Minister, Barthou. 

In his hour of triumph Pavelic did not forget that all those who had helped the 
birth of a strong united Yugoslavia had contributed to the death of the Catholic 
Austro-Hungarian Empire, the political pet gendarme of the Vatican, and, 
significantly enough, as a belated tribute to the old Austrian-Vatican alliance in 
the Balkans, he ordered the confiscation of the real property of "any persons 
who had volunteered with the Allies against Catholic Austria-Hungary during 
the First World War" (Statutory Order, dated April 18, 1941). 

This last move, like numerous others of a more tyrannical character, was 
followed with fascination by the Vatican, where the murderer of King 
Alexander came to be regarded as a great Catholic hero, blessed by none other 
than Pope Pius Xll himself, who bestowed his paternal protection upon him and 
the New Croatian State. That was not enough. Pius Xll, that holiest of all 
modern Popes, spun some of the most unholy diplomatic webs, with the 
specific object of bestowing upon the political creatures of the devout regicide 
Pavelic some kind of a king. For to the Catholic Church kings are, next to 
Catholic dictators, still her most cherished political dodos. 










General Roata, Commander of the Fascist forces of occupation in 
Yugoslavia; Field Marsbai Slavio Kvaternik; and the Commander of 
the German forces of occupation in Croatia. 

As Supreme Military Apostolic Vicar of the Ustashi Army, Archbishop 
Stepinac participated in military and political functions, mingling with 
the Fascist, Nazi and Ustashi Commanders. 

At one time Stepinac directed Ustashi guerrillas following Pavelic's 
flight. He established contacts and coordinated the scattered Ustashi 
bands, directing priests and monks to act as liaison with them. 

When, finally, on November 8, 1945, Ustashi Croatia disintegrated, 
Slepinac reconsecrated the Ustashi Crusaders' force with a fiat in his 
own Chapel. After which he received "a pledge from Ustashi 
intellectuals" to fight to the end for the liberator of Ustashi Croatia. 

He was in constant contact with the Ustashi detachments raiding 
Orthodox villages and towns. Also with the Nazi occupational forces in 
and outside Croatia. 




Ante Pavelic, the inspirer, creator and leader of the independent 
Catholic State of Croatia. He employed terrorism, political extremism 
and religious fanaticism with such ruthlessness as to outsmart even his 
two main Fascist protectors, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. 

He was the brains behind the assassination of King Alexander and 
other political murders which preceded the disintegration of 
Yugoslavia and thus the erection of his super-Nazi, super-Catholic 
independent Ustashi Croatia. He enjoyed the protection of Pope Pius 



ultimate objective. 

When Ustashi Croatia collapsed, Pavelic hid at the Vatican, then, 
disguised as a monk, fled to the Argentine where he set up an Ustashi 
Government, waiting for "the Day." Sundry Catholic hierarchies 
openly helped him in exile. Pre-war acts of terrorism were begun anew. 
Pavelic became the victim of a murder attempt himself. He died shortly 
before and after the deaths of his two main ecclesiastical supporters, 
Pope Pius XII and Cardinal Stepinac, still dreaming of resurrecting 
anew Catholic Ustashi Croatia. 



The throne of Croatia had originally been assigned to the scion of the 
Hapsburgs — i.e. Otto. As, however, Hitler suffered from anti-Hapsburg phobia, 
plans had to be somewhat modified. Otto had to be discarded. A feverish 
exploration amid the remaining forlorn royal crowned heads of Nazified 
Europe was speedily initiated. The new King's paramount virtue had to be a 
very obvious one: he must be persona grata to the Fuehrer. Catholic 
Providence, which has always provided the Vatican with an uninterrupted 
shower of Peter's pence — or, to be more up-to-date, with an ever-increasing 
shower of Peter's dollars — again proved that her cornucopia could still supply a 
mankind confused by all the errors of republicanism with that increasingly rare 
commodity: kings. Now kings have become very rare and, in fact, exceptional. 
Hence the need for an exceptional man to carry out an exceptional commission. 
The man: Pope Pius Xll. 

Pius XII had been the recipient of portents — that is, of phenomena with which 
only saints, it is said, are privileged. This even though such phenomena as a 
rule occur after death, and always when a rational scrutiny of the miracles has 
become impossible. During the Conclave of 1939, convened to elect a new 
Pope, Cardinal Pacelli was visited by Pius X in person. Pius X announced that 
the next Pontiff would be him, Pacelli. It was a miracle. It must have been, for 
Pius X had died almost three decades earlier. Pacelli was indeed elected Pope. 
The fact that he cast his own vote for himself did not really affect the issue. 
Pacelli became Pope Pius XII, choosing the name of Pius in honour of Pius X. 
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Ten years later, in 1950, Pius XII, after patient years of self-canonization, saw 
the sun zig-zag in the sky of Rome. Not once, it must be noted, but on three 
successive days. As if this were not enough, the very Mother of God appeared 
to him, within the convulsed sphere, "in a spectacle of celestial movements in 



transmission of mute but eloquent messages to the Vicar of Christ. "J71 It was 
not difficult for so extra-holy a successor of St. Peter, therefore, to find a 
worthy king. The fact that Pius XII had to conduct down-to-earth secret, hard 
bargaining with Mussolini was discreetly hushed up. The chosen one? Victor 
Emanuel, King of Italy, whom Pius XII himself not long before had blessed as 
"the august and wise Emperor of Ethiopia, "[81 following Fascist Italy's ruthless 




Pope Pius XII (1939-1958) was a brilliant diplomat, a cunning 
politician. These characteristics made of him one of the paramount 
personalities of our times. A match for his fellow Fascist and 
Communist Dictators. He, more than anybody else outside Germany, 
helped Hitler to power. This he did by steering the German Catholic 
Party, and top Catholic leaders, to support the Fuehrer. 

Pius' pet obsession was Communism. After World War 1, he allied the 
Church with Italian, Spanish and German Fascism, and with the USA 
after World War 1 1 . He became the main instigator of the Cold War 
that followed. 

Besides being ruthless in political matters, he was unscrupulous in 
religious ones. He self- sanctified himself with alleged miracles. He 
claimed that the Virgin Mary worked a miracle personally for him, 
alone. He claimed also that none other than Jesus Christ himself visited 
and spoke to him. 

He practiced nepotism, that is, the granting of undeserved titles, riches 
and privileges to his own family. 

He was a paranoiac, on a par with Hitler and Stalin. He transformed the 
Catholic Church into a global political instrument, using the Catholic 
masses as gullible expendable pawns in his own ideological gambles. 



conquest of Coptic Abyssinia, where Fascism and Catholicism were jointly to 
implant Catholic-Fascist civilization. King Victor, although physically a 
midget, was a very brave man. He was already resignedly suffering under the 
weight of two crowns: the kingly crown of Italy and the Imperial crown of 
Abyssinia. The idea of a third, that of Croatia, fired him with the most 
admirable democratic conviction that three crowns upon the head of one single 
man might be considered by envious masses as a genuine social injustice. So 
Victor, for the first time in his life, took a decision. To the chagrin of that most 
virtuous trinity, Pope, Duce, and Pavelic, he shouted an immortal ditty, "Now 
then, that's truly much to much, even for me" and refused. Following a moment 
of bewilderment, and hasty confabulations with the other two members of the 
trio, Pius Xll, thanks to a supernatural hint, found a priceless substitute: the 
cousin of Victor, the Duke of Spoleto. 

The life of a mere Duke nowadays is somewhat dull. The Duke of Spoleto, 
although a mere Duke, was born with above-average ducal ambition. Hence, 
when political fortune blew his way, he seized her tightly by the hair. Having 
first made quite sure that the somewhat moody Austrian commoner who had 
promoted himself to the Chancellorship of Germany approved of him, secondly 
that the son of a blacksmith from Romagna would smile on him, and last but 
not least that His Holiness Pius Xll would give him a triple blessing, he 
accepted the royal Croatian sceptre with a blush. A name worthy of such a 
crown was selected, approved, and hailed. And so it happened that a poor 
unknown Duke suddenly found himself the head of a new dynasty in the 
Kingdom of Croatia, and became His Most Gracious Exalted Majesty, 
Tomislav II. 

At such wonderful news a massive Ustashi delegation, led by Ante Pavelic, 
rushed to Rome, where, in the very seat of the Fascist Empire, on May 18, 
1941, Tomislav II's gracious acceptance of the Croatian Crown took place, 
punctuated by clicking of military heels, Fascist salutes, and hurrahs. At the 
Vatican the happiness of the Pope was unbounded. Yet his fatherly heart was 
made a little heavy by the fact that Tomislav II, his triumphant political 
godchild, could not openly be given a solemn papal blessing. Pius XII was the 
head of the Universal Church. Catholics by the million were at that very 
moment fighting with the Allies to smash that very Fascist world with which 
Pius was on such cordial terms. In addition to that, Pius was simultaneously the 
head of the Vatican State and as such — oh, happy coincidence! — a king 
himself. To recognize his new royal colleague at that juncture would have been 
interpreted by the democratic camp as a breach of "papal neutrality." His 
Holiness, therefore, had to use caution. 



Popes claim they can unlock gates — in heaven and in hell. That is why they 
have St. Peter's massive keys. But very often they can open back doors as well 
down here. And, the world being what it is, that is even more important. 
Particularly on occasions when the official gates of international diplomacy 
have to remain firmly closed. Adept in the age-old Catholic Macchiavelliana 
Pius XII solved the riddle triumphantly. He received good King Tomislav one 
day before the ceremony of his coronation. Who could say this was a breach of 
"papal neutrality?" The Duke of Spoleto was not yet officially a king. His 
Holiness the Pope had received him before he had legally become His Exalted 
Majesty, King Tomislav II. 

That same day Croatia was officially proclaimed a kingdom. The devout 
murderer of King Alexander of Yugoslavia — that is Pavelic — was granted a 
long and very private audience by the Pope. Only one stenographer, who 
cautious Pavelic had brought with him and who was made to take the oath 
never to reveal what he heard, was present. Strengthened by what Pius Xll had 
told him, Pavelic called on Mussolini, with whom he signed a treaty. Following 
all this, the indefatigable Holy Father received and solemnly blessed Pavelic's 
Prime Minister and his whole Ustashi delegation. Who, again, could label this a 
breach of "papal neutrality?" All those excellent people had been received 
merely as "Catholic individuals," not as the heads of the Government of the 
New Croatia, declared the Osservatore Romano. Honi soil qui maty pense. Yet 
the real significance of it all did not escape those who knew. Pius XII had 
granted all those good people a special audience, not because they were mere 
"Catholic individuals": he had specially received, specially blessed, and 
specially praised them because, while members of the Mother Church, they 
were, above all, the representatives of the newly born Independent Catholic 
State of Croatia, a political creature stubbornly nurtured and ruthlessly 
promoted by that most malign of all its conceivers, the Vatican. 



Footnotes 

1. See The Ciano Diaries, foreward by Sumner Welles, Doubleday & Co, Inc., 
1946, pp. 46,48-50,60,87,97.[Backl 

2. Memoir e de V Organisation Musulmane Yougoslav, to the National 
Committee for Free Europe, New York, May, 1950. [Back] 

3. W.D. Isla, CommentairessurlesvProblemes Yougoslaves, p. 45, Geneva, 
1944.[Backl 



4. SeeNedelja, August 10, 1941. £Back] 

5. See Nedelja, April 27, 1941 JBackl 

6. Pius XII claimed to have seen Pius X during the conclave of 1939, and that 
the latter foretold him that he would become the next Pope. For more details, 
see The Cross, organ of the Passionist Fathers, Dublin, March, 1948 jBackl 

7. This occurred on three successive days, October 30 and 31 and November 1, 
1950. The official description of this repetitive miracle, given by Pius XII's 
special delegate, Cardinal Tedeschini, was the following: 

The Holy Father (Pius XII) turned his gaze from the Vatican 
gardens to the sun, and there was renewed for his eyes the prodigy 
of the Valley of Fatima.... He was able to witness the life of the 
sun under the hand of Mary. The sun was agitated, all convulsed, 
transformed into a picture of life, in a spectacle of celestial 
movements; in transmission of mute but eloquent messages to the 
Vicar of Christ. 

Cardinal Tedeschini, at the Shrine of Fatima, Portugal, 13.10.1951. See world 
and Catholic Press, 14-15-16.10.1951. For more details of the concocted papal 
visions and the political objectives of their manufacturers see the author's 
Catholic Imperialism and World Freedom (Watts 500 pp.). TBackl 

8. Words used by Pius XII, December 21, 1939, when blessing King 
Victor . TBackl 

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