'WE HAVE OTHER MEANS' BOASTS TITO

But he backs violence against clergy as well
^ N admission that priests recently have been attacked in Yugoslavia was made by Tito According to the official Yugoslav news agency, Tanjug, Tito, speaking to 300,000 people in Ruma, condemned the physical attacks on priests which he said have occurred in various parts of the country.
"We have other means to combat priests who try to fish in troubled waters, provoking the bitterness of the Yugoslav people," he said.
"The priests should be ignored. They should he told to their face that we have not sacrificed 1,700.000 lives to permit foreign agents to work against our country."
Then, in an attempt to seduce the clergy from their allegiance to Rome, he added, "Yugoslavia will continue to grant full freedom to priests who serve their people."
TITO' S LET7 ER
But. according to reports reaching the NCWC News Service in 1 rieste, the outbreak of violence against Bishops and priests throughout Yugoslavia was instigated by Tito himself.
These reports state that last June Tito sent a confidential letter to all Communist party cells urging them to intensify their fight on religion. The letter allegedly stated that all means-even violence-should be used to prevent Bishops and priests from opposing the governmentsponsored "priests' associations."
The new wave of violence against the Bishops began shortly after this.
Meanwhile it is reported that Bishop Anton Vouls. Apostolic Administrator of Ljubljana, who has at various times been beaten, set on fire by a Red mob and fined by Cornmunist courts, has now been deprived of a seminary farm because he was unable to pay an impossible "tax."
FARM SEIZED
Tito's authorities assessed the Bishop for "taxes" amounting to two million dinars (over £2,000). When he was unable to pay, the authorities seized the farm and the last building owned by the diocese at Goricane.
Not far from the Bishop's see city of Ljubljana, the authorities have arrested two priests for allegedly inciting a riot when police and militiamen destroyed some 20 ancient religious and historical monuments, including public crucifixes and small shrines, built through the centuries as a sign of the people's gratitude for being saved from various plagues and natural catastrophes.
When the people demonstrated their opposition to this action the authorities arrested the priests as "instigators against the government."