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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...love for Marshal Tito. Volunteers laboring on "the 1946 Youth Railroad" sang joyous songs declaring that "America and Britain will be proletarian lands some day too." "Brigades" of sun-bronzed youths, encamped in "pleasing" barracks, assured the visitors that they toiled "in harmony [without any] need for discipline." Author St. John gave one of the girl workers an American lipstick, asking her "when she looked at it ... to remember that in our country there are young people who also have freshness and ideals and vision...
Friendly helpers were always at hand to clear up awkward points. Example: Tito's habit of taxing a citizen not according to how much he earns but according to how he earns it and "what contributions he's making to the society in which he lives." Author St. John was assured that this rather personal form of taxation was necessary because New Yugoslavia is "trying to feel her way slowly," and just hasn't got around to framing tax laws. In fact, says St. John, Tito is being so conscientiously slow that Yugoslavia "is actually operating without...
Almost everyone had bloodcurdling anecdotes about Mihailovich and his Chetniks, whom they considered no better than Hitler and his Nazis. Author St. John scanned the horizon for opponents of New Yugoslavia, but they were as scarce as Tories in the Kremlin. The few he did find turned out to be selfish little rascals whose only aim was to get their confiscated property or obtain a U.S. passport...
Great Mystic Purpose. Many readers are likely to resent Author St. John's fervent acceptance of New Yugoslavia. They will also resent his stunning platitudes (e.g., "In European countries where there is wild inflation the value of the native currency is constantly dropping") and his soap-opera similes ("When the sun came up, the Vardar Valley looked like a young woman in a transparent white negligee standing in the morning light rubbing the sleep out of her eyes"). But criticism should not perturb bearded Bob St. John, whose faith in Tito is matched by faith in his own powers...
...Presidents' Sons, Author J. J. Perling has gone to the unrewarding trouble of probing the obscurity that most of the presidential sons desired and deserved. A measure of their achievement is that by the time the book is finished, the reader has forgotten all but a few of them. Of the 60 sons that Perling writes about, only John Quincy Adams, a President's son and a President himself, is apt to be remembered long. Presidents' Sons is oddly content with the simple act of exhuming its subjects. They are neither understood nor studied; the only interesting...