World Peace And Legacy Of B. Wongar

cations in Serbian bulletins. Habsburg dynasty attempted to carry out
a school reform sub speciae progressis within the Serbian community,
but he rejected it in one of his papers (probably 1874), where Milan
Milanković unambiguously said that “ this law takes away the liberal
thinking right and also the justice, thus, by these reasons, we cannot
bow to this law as an incarnation of justice… Serbs cannot apply this
law, with all zeal of civic love for the common good, because this law,
maybe inadvertently, runs towards denying use of Cyrillic alphabet
and Serbian minority … and it attacks all autonomy of Serbs in our
homeland…”

Dream and World Peace
Similarly to the Milanković family, Sreten`s father, Stevan Božić, took
upon himself to educate his son. “My father Stevan was a talented
speaker. While we worked a field, he liked to talk about what happened
in the world since the biblical times till present. This probably mo-
tivated me to start writing,” says Wongar. Sreten`s brother, Milosav,
in his book Gloomy Serbian Immigration Selected Stories talks about
their father in a similar manner. Writing is not something casual or
marginal to the life occurrences for Milosav either. While he holds
a trowel in one hand at construction sites in australian bush, he is
with a pen in other hand ready to write. “for already two decades I‘m
collecting and writing down adventures and tragedies of Serbian im-
migrants who were scattered all over the globe during and after wars.”.
He spent two decades on writing his book and that shows us how ser-
ious he is about being a writer. although he is not formally literate,
his text is enriched with marvelously high level of contemplativeness,
knowledge, examination, deduction and interpretation of objects
around him. The lack of the formal school education probably freed
his mind allowing it go deeper into the matter in a way that is unfamil-
iar to scholars.
Essentially Milanković family manages to preserve its intellectual
capacity through generations that delivered writers, philosophers,
lawyers, engineers. Spiritualism was unavoidable and completely prac-
tical for Serbian families through centuries no matter which bank of
river Sava they lived on. The lack of formal education was balanced
by the depth of spiritual heritage and by spiritual overcoming of mere
rationalism. as his son witnessed, Stevan Božić was in the dreamy
state his entire life, balancing between myth and reality. Probably the
most thrilling part of the above mentioned book by Milosav Božić is
dedicated to his father’s dream:
“In military service during 1912 in city of Kragujevac camp one
evening I was in the bed reading my most favorite book Scriptures.
and when the military trumpet announced time to sleep and the sol-
dier on duty turned off the lights I put the book under the pillow and
fell asleep. That night I received the news of what awaits me and what
role a Serbian soldier will have to play in the following war. I dreamt
that night a handsome, bearded man with his name rodney written
on a lapel. He held a Holy Scripture in one hand, and with the other
one he showed me a well-known chapter of the revelation of John,
where it said: The Angel flew, and was given to him to untie the four
angels who were tied to the great river Euphrates.”
rodney explained these four angels to be four states: Serbia, Monte-
negro, greece and Bulgaria. “you will go to war together against Turk-
ish Empire, will win and untie yourselves forever from Turkey. The
god will give the Balkan league the power and key to open the door of
the horrible Judgment Day. The Balkan War will condition and cause
the World War. This first World War will bring immense suffering
and destruction on the land; Second World War will be an extension
of the first one, and the third world war – extension of the second. a
Judgment Day and all three world wars will start with Balkan league
and Serbian soldier. after the third world war the god will organize
upon his particular wish an empire on the land, a united nations gov-
ernment will rule and whole world will be like one big village… The
military trumpet that announced wake up separated me from this
holly man.” at that same day the newspapers in Serbia wrote about
the Trade Treaty between Serbia and Turkey. People still did not know
anything about the war that was knocking on their door.
rodney visited Stevan in his dreams throughout his life revealing
the future events that lied ahead on the path of his personal life, the
life of the state and even the world. rodney notified Stevan of the
death of the king alexandar Karadjordjević. Stevan wrote a letter to
the king aleksandar informing him of the death that would happen
to him in france. But, the Crown Counsel decided not to deliver
the letter to avoid worrying the king and keeping him from visiting
france. They took the letter as simple nonsense fantasies of a crazy
villager. after King aleksandar Karadjordjević’s assassination in
Marseilles in 1934, Stevan Božić inquired the court about acknow-
ledgement receipt of the letter.
Those in charge of the mail office argued that the Crown Counsel
did not deliver the letter to the king because they were nervous that
such unpleasant news, which came for a villager’s dream, would be
considered worthy of his attention. Stevan Božić through his lawyer
Čeda Plećević pressed charges against the Court Counsel quoting that
the Counsel prevented him from saving the king aleksandar’s life.
The lawyer Čeda Plećević from arandjelovac and Stevan Božić, the
plowman from gornja Trešnjevica, became helpless against the Court
Board and its lawyers. The letter sent by Stevan Božić that proved the