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...partly successful. He arrived at Pavla Miskina Ulica i only to find that Golubic's 75-year-old sister had gone to the country to help some relatives harvest hay. But her daughter, Mrs. Antonia Ivkovich, was home; she and Andrica had a long and sentimental talk -in Croatian. Then Andrica said, "Dovidjenja" ("Goodbye"), and pressed on to Plitvice, the place of waterfalls, where relatives of other Clevelanders dwell...
...Logic of Wonderland. In Choisy-le-Roi, near Paris, police had ignored refugee Soviet Engineer Taras Hryciuk, instead hauled off his daughter Tamara, whose crime seemingly consisted of being president of the Ukrainian Students' Association in Paris. Father Dragoun, rector of the Croatian Catholic Mission in Paris, was sure that his offense had been officiating at a memorial mass for the late Cardinal Stepinac...
...Kailern family mansion (the former palace of an archbishop) is overrun by a plague of sponging Croatian relatives; Milli's gentle father fitfully writes his futile memoirs; her dashing brother Karli spends his nights gambling, his days wooing nouveau riche heiresses. Milli drifts moodily through her days, hears people talking about a man named (she thinks) Albert Hitler, beats her head against the prison walls of faded gentility, and makes vague, hopelessly unrealistic plans to work in a hotel or a tourist agency. Rescue finally comes when an aunt who has married a U.S. millionaire sweeps into Vienna, vaguely...
Died. Ante Pavelic, 70, fanatical Croatian nationalist who carried the logic of national self-determination to its ultimate conclusion and sacrificed his countrymen to the savagery of the Nazis, represented more than any other living person the bitter, neurotic type of Balkan extremist who helped plunge Europe into two devastating wars; of the effects of a bullet lodged in his body three years ago by an assassin; in Madrid. Embittered by the Allies' creation of Yugoslavia after World War I, Pavelic promised obedience to Nazi Germany in return for a new state of Croatia with himself at the head...
...treason is to be slower on the draw than the other fellow, the only real heresy to be out of step with the twistings of "historical necessity." Author Maclean traces the fairly familiar but still remarkable facts of Tito's life from his birth (1892) in a tiny Croatian village to his World War I years as a prisoner in Russia and his fighting alongside the Bolsheviks during the Russian civil war. The story continues with Tito's years (1928-34) in the jails of what by then was Yugoslavia (he found prison "just like being...