YUGOSLAVIA
1953
SUSTAINED
progress toward the international enactment of calendar reform
was reported at the Seventh Annual Meeting 15 January
1954 of The World Calendar
Association, International, held in the International Building,
New York City. Published highlights (JCR Vol. 24, April
1954) for the YUGOSLAVIA:
Organization
of a new committee on calendar reform in Yugoslavia is being
discussed to take the place of the group which became inactive
after the death of the chairman, Mr. George Curcin, several
years ago. Enthusiasts in the Belgrade area include Rear Admiral
Mariasevic, now living in Zemun, ten miles from the capital.
At Novi Sad, fifty miles up the Danube, are Bishop Irenäus,
head of the Orthodox Church, and Dr. Nikola Ygnjatovic, president
of the court of Appeals. The attitude of the Yugoslav government
has been definitely favorable to calendar reform since the
first League of Nations conferences in 1931. In fact, the
Preparatory Committee for the 1931 meeting was presided over
by a Yugoslav diplomat, M. Djouritchitch, who had as his technical
adviser M. Vasa Yovanovitch of the Belgrade Chamber of Industry.
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