Word: jugoslavians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MURDER IN THE CALAIS COACH-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Basing the tale on America's great kidnapping, the author brings the archcriminal to his doom on a snowbound Jugoslavian express. Coincidentally the rotund, penetrating Poirot is abroad. Clues abound. Alibis are frequent and unassailable but nothing confounds the great Hercule who, after propounding alternative solutions to his jury of two, retires modestly...
...native country, much less write a book about it, but he ended by doing both. The Native's Return, something between a travel diary and a guide book, is better than most such journalistic accounts. Though his book may well make its author persona non grata with the Jugoslavian Government, it should certainly boom the Dalmatian tourist trade...
...tycoon who had chosen Adamic to make an exhaustive report on the true state of affairs in Jugoslavia, would then set all things right. Adamic, discovering plenty of things that needed setting to rights, says flatly that King Alexander's Government is a grinding dictatorship, that Jugoslavian jails hold thousands of political prisoners, that if he had not been exceedingly circumspect he would have had no chance of getting the notes for his book across the border...
...about to be shot was asked if he had ever been in a worse fix. Yes, he answered, once-"when a man came to see me from afar and I was so poor that I had nothing in the house to offer him." Adamic was offered and refused the Jugoslavian Order of the White Eagle, afterward had a mutually cold interview with King Alexander, whom he considers of a piece with "the rest of the tyrants and dictators...
...nervous did Adamic finally become about Jugoslavian censorship that he decided to leave the country unexpectedly. Safely across the border with the notes for his book, he breathed more easily. Though he was glad to have seen the old country again, he was yet gladder that he did not have to live there. He feels sorry for Jugoslavians, thinks they are condemned to be cannon fodder at no distant date...