20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

794 Adina Berciu-Drăghicescuthe Romanian Orthodox Church could not be fulfilled because the priestMoisescu has not obtained anymore a visa to entry Greece.In 1961 was also tried a new action to help Mount Athos monks, butwithout result.In Yugoslavia, according to the census of 1921, that had its finaldata published in 1932, 231,000 Romanian mother language talkerslived distributed as follows: in the Yugoslavian Banat 67,896, in Craina,Pojarevaţ, Timoc, Morava districts lived 145,000, and in the rest ofYugoslavia, 18,143. 87 In a study on the situation of the Romanians inYugoslavia from January the 31 th , 1941 was indicated that in the countiesCraina, Morava, Pojarevaţ and Serbian Timok, churches, monasteries andRomanian schools were closed ever since the age of the Serbian kingdom."In the absence of church and national school, illiteracy and religious sectshad alarmingly spread. Schools’ attending in Romania is prohibited, andalso for the Romanians in the Yugoslavian Banat. Those who still chooseto study abroad remain lost elements for the local national life. 88The situation of the Romanians in Serbian Macedonia was also verydifficult. In 18 Romanian villages, until 1918, in the Serbian Macedoniaoperated 24 primary schools, a high school for boys and a vocational schoolfor girls in Bitolia. All these schools were closed immediately after 1918 bythe Yugoslavian government, and the premises were seized. Any attemptto reopen them was made in vain. 89 Former Prime Minister N. Paşici, askedon the reasons for this persecution, stated that outside the convention ofBucharest from 1913, there was an oral secret agreement according towhich, in an attack directed against Serbia, Romania will help it and as thishas not happened, the written agreement of 1913 fell and so the Romaniancultural establishments in Macedonia had to be suppressed. 90Many memoirs were made by the principal of the Romanian HighSchool for boys in Bitolia, Adam Coe, and the school inspector IoanVuloagă, of the principal of the Normal Vocational School for girls in thesame city, Maria Capsali, in which they required to the mother country thehelp to preserve the right to instruct their children in Romanian language.In January 1921, in a memorandum addressed to the Ministry of PublicEducation in Romania, Adam Coe considered: "... our national issue isparticularly delicate and more critical as compared to the past, because87A.N.I.C., fund Presidency of Ministeries’ Council, file 391/1941, f. 7.88Ibidem, f. 23.89Ibidem, fund of the Ministry of Public Instruction, file 799 1923, f. 9.90Nicolae, Chiachir 1987, History of the South-East peoples in modern times,Bucharest, 340.