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Communist Dictatorship: In October 1944, Belgrade was liberated by a combination of the Red army and Tito's Partisans. Tito proclaimed the Communist Revolution: collective farms, a switch to heavy industry, Marxist education and a drive against religion (including the imprisonment of Roman Catholic Cardinal Stepinac...
...Despite Yugoslavia's censorship, news leaked out that a new priest is performing the duties of Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac, whom Tito's Communists imprisoned for five years, and who has been restricted to his home village since 1951. At a quiet service, Father Franjo Seper, 49, a tall, thin Zagreb parish priest, was consecrated archbishop and coadjutor sedi datu (coadjutor given to the see). The new title serves notice that the church regards the imprisoned Stepinac as its true cardinal-archbishop...
...Last week Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski (pronounced Vishinsky) felt the steel of the trap that has already closed upon Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty, Yugoslavia's Cardinal Stepinac, Czechoslovakia's Archbishop Beran and China's Cardinal Tien. Secret police searched his house all night; then the government "deposed" him as primate of Poland. The Cardinal was "allowed to retire to a monastery," said the Warsaw radio. But he went with accusations of "anti-state activities" hanging over his head-a broad hint that the next step might be a propaganda trial...
After twice examining Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac in Yugoslavia, where he is confined by government order to his home village, two American physicians reported that he was "not in any immediate danger" from his blood disease (an excess of red blood cells), thought he "still can live many, many years...
...Armed with radioactive phosphorus supplied by the AEC, two top U.S. specialists flew to Yugoslavia to treat Cardinal Stepinac for polycythemia (an excess of red blood cells, sometimes called "reverse leukemia"): the University of California's Radiation Expert John H. Lawrence (TIME, April 7, 1952) and Chicago Surgeon John F. Ruzic...