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chairman of Croatia’s Commission for Relations with Religious Communities,
said that the 375th anniversary of Gomirje says enough about a century-old
brotherhood between Serbs and Croats in Croatia who live side by side in this
area and elsewhere in Yugoslavia, “all the time preserving fraternal love, concord,
and peace despite many attempts to separate the two fraternal nations.”
Glasnik Srpske pravoslavne crkve, 10 October 1975, p. 183.
46. Ibid., p. 209.
47. Glasnik Srpske pravoslavne crkve, 11 November 1972, p. 282.
48. Ibid., p. 275.
49. Savezna komisija za vjerska pitanja (Federal Commission for Religious
Affairs), “Izvesˇtaj o poseti patrijarha Ruske pravoslavne crkve Jugoslaviji” (Report
on the visit of the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church to Yugoslavia)
(Belgrade, 2 November 1972).
50. Ibid., p. 293.
51. Glasnik Srpske pravoslavne crkve, 11 November 1974, p. 237.
52. Ibid.
53. Spasojević, The Communists and I: The Serbian Patriarch German and the
Communists, p. 81.
54. Radna grupa Sekretarijata Centralnog komiteta Saveza komunista Srbije,
“Aktivnost SKS u borbi protiv nacionalizma i sˇovinizma u SR Srbiji,” pp. 199–
203. (my translation).
4. The Catholic Church and the Making of the Croatian Nation,
1970–1984
1. This chapter is a revised version of an article published under the same
title in East European Politics and Societies (Fall 2000), pp. 532–564. Reprinted
from East European Politics and Societies 14, 3, by permission of the University of
California Press. �2000 by The American Council of Learned Societies.
2. Quoted in Dennison Rusinow, The Yugoslav Experiment 1948–1974 (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1977), p. 296.
3. See more about the movement in Ramet, Nationalism and Federalism in
Yugoslavia: 1962–1991; Ante Čuvalo, The Croation National Movement, 1966–1972
(Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 1990) and Rusinow, The Yugoslav Experiment.
4. See Čuvalo, The Croation National Movement, pp. 155–157.
5. According to a report of the League of Communists of Croatia, Committee
of Rijeka, 25 February 1971, cited in Ćiril Petesˇić, S ˇ to se dogadja u Katoličkoj crkvi
u Hrvatskoj? (Zagreb: Stvarnost, 1972), pp. 54–55.
6. Interview with me in Split, Croatia, November 1989.
7. As asserted by S ˇ agi-Bunić in a 1990 interview with me. The interview
appeared in Nedjeljna Dalmacija on 24 June 1990.
8. Ibid.
9. Franić had talks with the newly appointed premier of Croatia, Ivo Perisˇin,
on 22 January 1972 and with the chairman of Croatia’s Commission for Religious
Affairs, Zlatko Frid, on 20 January 1972. Franić also discussed the Croatian
crisis several times with the mayor of Split, Jaksˇa Miličić. This is according to
the following documents: Komisija za odnose s vjerskim zajednicama Izvrsˇnog
vijeća Sabora Socijalističke Republike Hrvatske (Commission for Relations with
Religious Communities of the Executive Council of the Assembly of the Socialist
Republic of Croatia), “Zabiljesˇka o razgovoru predsjednika komisije Dr. Zlatka
264 notes to pages 52–58