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Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 40 No. 23. September 12 1977

Dear Sir,

WEARY WANDERER; RUGGED INDIVIDUALIST FREE SPRIT

D. Beswick's abridged statements concerning Ustasha (Roman Catholic. Actionaries) against Serbs (Orthodox Christians) in Yugoslavia during WW 2, can certainly be substantiated, despite statements to the contrary by the Reverend Father O.O'Sullivan.

The Rev. Fr. says that most of the fighting took place in Croatia, but fails to mention which Croatia (Hrvatska), that before May 1941, or that afterwards?

The "Independent State of Croatia" expanded it's borders as the Nazis invaded, and behaved atrociously toward Orthodox Christians and Jews not only in Hrvatska proper, but also in the regions of Bosna, Hercegovina, Vojvodina, Slavonija, and Dalmacija.

It declared war on the Allies and was a religion fascist satellite of the Nazis. It supported Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in their depopulation campaign and imperialism, with its own religious pogroms, forced conversions to Roman Catholicism, public tortures, and massacres.

It's Ustasha, and similar groups, were aided mightily by the Moslem population, and by Hungarian and Italian fascist forces in their common imperialisms.

The UNO, and wartime Allied governments have plenty of authenticated documentation on these matters; and not far from Wellington exists a library of publications on Jugoslavija in WW 2.

I list a few titles which the Reverend Father ought to read, but they are likely to be listed in an Index Prohibitorum:—

"The Martyrdom of the Serbs"—documents and reports of UNO and eyewitnesses. New York 1943.

"Yugoslavia in the Second World War"—government pub. Beograd 1967.

"Tito" by G. Bilainkin, Williams & Norgate, London 1949.

"Eastern Approaches "—Fitzroy MacLean, Jonathan Cape, London 1949.

"The Position of the Church in Yugoslavia"—government pub. Beograd 1961.

"Ravening Wolves"—by M. Farrell, pub. Glebe, NSW, 1949.

"This is Artokovic" by Gaffney, Starchevic, McHugh, Box 2313, Grand Central Stn., New York.

ferror over Yugoslavia" by Avro [unclear: M uh] 'tan, pub. Watts & Co., London 1953.

"Ustasha under the Southern Cross" by M. Jurjevic, pub. Jurjevic, Melbourne, 1973.

There are many others available, whereas so very little information about the appalling situation in Jugoslavia in WW 2 has ever been published by the propoganda system of our "free world".

Perhaps this is because the churches are very much on the side of capitalism and its imperialism, which also might explain why Ustasha war criminals named at the Nuremberg trials are living unmolested in the "home and fount of freedom", the USA.

—Gorevac.