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...Belgrade lawyer Nikola Mrvojevic and five confederates brandished two revolvers and a knife on a plane from Belgrade for Ljubljana, forced the pilot to head for Graz, in the British zone of Austria. In Graz, Mrvojevic asked political asylum. In his coat lining, the lawyer carried Maria Theresa dollars, gold napoleons...
...British immigration officials have already begun to tighten the fence against "undesirables." Typical was the case of one Nikola Martinovic, who flew into London from Switzerland last week, described himself as a political refugee from Tito's Yugoslavia seeking asylum in Britain. When immigration inspectors told him that his visa had expired, he shouted wildly: "I don't want to go back! I will commit suicide if you send me back to Yugoslavia!" After a night under guard, Martinovic was put on a plane bound for Switzerland. Over St. Quentin, France, he opened a door of the plane...
...after 22 years in exile, Georgi Dimitrov went back to Sofia where, in his own phrase, he started to sweep away all opposition with an iron broom. In 1947, Dimitrov's regime hanged Nikola Petkov, courageous democratic leader...
...Ashamed to Beg." In Sofia last week, three judges sat in front of a heroic mural of the blindfolded Goddess of Justice. Behind the defendants and their armed guards was a special section reserved for the defendants' relatives. First to come before the court was the Rev. Nikola Naumov, president of the Supreme Council of Bulgaria's United Evangelical Churches. He had always been known to his friends as a man of staunch convictions. "I confess I am guilty," he said in a clear voice. "I am sincerely sorry for what I have done." He remained...
That is Berialand, the most rapidly expanding power in the world today. It moves in wherever a society decays or falters or listens to fools, and destroys what is left. Patriots like Nikola Petkoff in Bulgaria are shot. Compromisers like Jan Masaryk are driven (by Communist hands or their own despair) through windows. Men like Talich, who can express what the people feel, are silenced. Beria's march will continue until the brains, the dollars, the power, and a reawakened moral force of the West stop...