Belgrade, July 29.
A violent anti-government tract has been published i Yugoslavia by M. Dimitri Liotiteh, head of the bor" movement (Yugoslav nationalist party with Fascist tendencies), in which it is claimed the late Patriarch Varnava of the Serbian Orthodox Church was poisoned and that the purpose of the Government in ratifying the concordat with the Vatican was to "liquidate Yugoslavia and disgust the Serbs in the country."
M. Liotiteh's party was recently revealed. to have close connection With German propaganda in Yugoslavia. The Patriarch Varnava, head of the Orthodox Church which is so defiantly opposing the concordat, had frequently in his lifetime expressed his sympathy for the Hitlerian regime.
The canonization of the late Patriarch was announced by church authorities yesterday as preparations were made for the funeral service to-da:
The body lies in state in the Orthodox Cathedral, through which thousands of persons and scores of official delegations have passed in the last four days to pay homage to the great churchman in his coffin of glass. The whole city has taken on an aspect of mourning reminiscent of King Alexander's death by assassination in October of 1924, The organizing committee for the funeral yesterday issued a proclamation, the text of which was not published in the papers. No seats are being reserved for the Premier, M. Milan Stoyadinoviteh, hi: eight Orthodox Cabinet ministers, and more than 100 deputies, against whom the Church pronounced an interdict because they allowed the. passage of the accorü with the Holy. See.
In the list of those to attend the service to-day, figure envoys of the King and the Regency, the diplomatic corps, the heads of other churches, former premiers of the nation, and only the senators and deputies expressly "invited. General Maritch, Minister of War and the Navy, is the one member of the Government who will be allowed in the church of St. Sava
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