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Hillbilly Government. But surprises are unlikely. The Proconsul has summarily silenced dissenters. Sporadic stabs of opposition still come from Yugoslavia's new Partisans (mostly followers of exiled Croatian Peasant Leader Vladimir Macek), who have taken to the hills. But the mass of anti-Communist Yugoslavs are leaderless. The middle class is being systematically liquidated, since ration cards are issued only to workers (says the model Constitution: "He who does not contribute to the community may not receive from it"). Almost all businesses are confiscated by the simple device of convicting the owners of collaboration with the Germans. The Catholic...
...when he sits at his desk, his legs do not reach the floor), who used to be a journalist, modernist painter and a Belgrade drawing-room lion until Communists were taken seriously. Then he was jailed, spent years studying Chinese, lecturing his jailmates, and translating Das Kapital into Serbo-Croatian...
...steaks as she can find, and cooks two hearty Yugoslav dishes - sarma (stuffed cabbage) and burek (meat and onion, wrapped in thin dough). Says she: "To look at me I still have plenty of flesh." When she made her debut in Yugoslavia at 19, she could sing only in Croatian. When Bruno Walter discovered her in Vienna, she had also learned to sing in German. Walter introduced her to Toscanini, who chose her to sing Verdi's Requiem at Salzburg in 1937. The Met brought her to the U.S. three months later. She knew neither Italian nor English. After...
...final wartime assignment was to head up OWI in Italy and the Balkans. (While in Rome he published OWI magazines totaling 525,000 copies a month - among them the Italian "Nuovo Mundo," the Croatian "DANAS," the Serbian "AAHAC...
Southern Slav Songs (Zinka Milanov, soprano; Sonart; 6 sides). Ingratiating melodies that sound Russian, Italian, Hungarian and Viennese in turn, sung in Serbo-Croatian. Recording: excellent...