Word: politika
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...Nova Politika...
...editors and teachers continued. Zdenek ("the Red Grandfather") Nejedly, the new Minister of Education, declared: "Stalin's picture will return to the classrooms. This is not merely a matter of a picture, but a conception of national life." The newspaper Svobodne Slovo (meaning "Free World") was retitled Nova Politika ("New Politics"). Foreign publications (including TIME & LIFE) were banned. The Ministry of Information instructed foreign correspondents to stop "malicious distortion of news." When asked whether the Ministry was to be the only judge of what constitutes distortion, a spokesman replied with genuine wonder: "Who else...
...State Department's request, the film had so far been sent only to Paris and Moscow. From Tito's Yugoslavia, the Paris showing brought charges of "atomic diplomacy." Cried Belgrade's Politika: a modern version of Theodore Roosevelt's well-remembered counsel, which might be paraphrased as "Speak softly but keep an atom bomb in your hand...
...Osborne had conceived a Mickey Mouse comic strip episode in which a Duke Varlott plots to gain the mythical throne of Medioka from his under-age nephew, King Michael. The Mickey Mouse strip is distributed by Hearst King Features Syndicate, one of whose clients is the Belgrade Politika. First Regent of Yugoslavia today is Prince Paul, first cousin once removed of King Peter, a minor, an analogy to the Mickey Mouse comic which few foreign papers failed to draw when fortnight ago Mickey Mouse was suppressed from Politika by the Government for two days. Unfortunately for Reporter Harrison, his story...
...deigning to apply epithets to such a film, dignified Politika urged the Yugoslavian Government to deal with Fox Films in the fashion of Polish Dictator Pilsudski: "Last year Warner Brothers made a film in which two gangsters had Polish names. . . . Poland promptly banned all Warner Brothers films and continued this ban until the company issued its unqualified apologies...