ARCHBISHOP STEPINAC IN BAD HEALTH
Received Friday, 10 a.m. * VATICA"N CITY, March 6. Archbishop Stepinac, according to information received from Yugoslavia, ise.a prisoner in a convent which the Yugoslavs have converted as a gaol for clergy. Archbishop Stepinac is in bad health and has been given the use of two rooms. Archbishop Stepinac, who was Primate of Yugoslavia, was sentenced in October last to sixteen years' imprisonment with hard labour, and the deprivation of civiL rights for five years after his re-i lease. He was found guilty ofj urging the Catholic clergy and Croat people to collaborate with the Ustashi, of actively writing in a ! Fascist way as president of the | Catholic Press, or serving the Ustashi in provoking racial hatred, and of giving signs in many ways, of his sympathies for the Ustashi.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 March 1947, Page 5
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