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XsAeZe. September 52. - page four = above a e In Sorpiep ettő and Heggionie. of the religious opposition, stems from the majority of the ZEXEZEK Orthodox Church. “he Council of its Bishops met a few weeks ago and, with 14 voices against 4, decided to refuse recognition to the Leagge of Orthodox Priests that was sponsored by the government. This is an interesting fact, as it is a concrete evidence of the fundamental difference that exists between the Tito regime and the Cominform countries. Both are mazxists. but the latters moreover are Moscow styled. “his plays an important role in religious POlicies: whereas Roman Catholi with th i í invariably in opcosítion to marsigt regimes. OP ened ay on et, tet hetre submission of Patriarch Alexei to Stalin - has become the official Churcl and a propaganda instrument in the whole Soviet orbit. In Yougoslavia on the contrary it was freed to enter opposition, at the very moment in which Tito chose his own way, independent from Moscow. | The unif force. ; In recent months and weeks, threatening declarations have come from Party officials and in editorials: £x mam warning against infilteation of hostile elements and against resurgence of foreign bourgeois ide@is, particularly in public schook%s and universities, in arts and letters, in the judiciary and the press, in state economic enterprises and in trading organizations. Mach one of these declarations ended with an appeal for p .rification of the ideal of a "Socialist democracy", as opposed to Western and Eastern ideas; it pledged stronger party disciplir and invariably hinted at the threat of impending purgese . . Individual and group repressions followed: members of the Roman Catholic, the Orthodox and the Moslem Churches were sentencedj Students were excluded from schools and universities; public employees were dismissed. It was hoped that such cases would serve as threatening examples and would re-enforce public and party discipline along the lines of the unifying official philosophy. Then, by the end of June, came a declaration from the Minister of the Interior, Alexander Rankovics He announced publicly that the militarized state security police, the UDBA, was to be reorganized into a civilian agency. The Minister called this a sign of Yougoslavia's | progressing democratization... This measure, as so many others, is ; symptomatic of the whole Yougoilav pictures There is a constant emphaáás of democa@atization and on change, which goes along with appeal for the maintemacne of marxist discipline and for the purity of iss socialismee. The uniform and the official status of the security police is changed; but the state security police itself remains see The present and the previous report on Yougoslavia skunks are intended to give nothing more tha a general background. this is however highly important to understand, if one whishes to interprete in the right sense the concrete facts and details that will be reported at some later date. Foreign newspapars - in most cases — fail to see these deeper connections and therefore are either unable or unjust in trying to find an explanation to the many news that come from Yougoslavia and that, at the outside, appear as being contradictory or illogical. ---- ae