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Mission from Moscow. Just a decade after he marched away from the smithy, Josip Broz returned to Croatia, but not to blacksmithing. His job was to organize a metal-trades union. He had left Austria. He returned to the crazy-quilt kingdom of the South Slavs whose Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins and Macedonians would presently be held together in uneasy union by a tight little dictatorship headed by King Alexander II. Under the dictatorship only the Serbs supported the dynasty. Only tractable parties were legal. Trade unions were outlawed. As a Croat, a Communist and a trade-union organizer, Josip...
Federated Balkans. Beyond the hope of a federated Yugoslavia loomed the larger hope of a federated Balkans. If Yugoslavia had been a crazy quilt of related national stocks in precarious cohesion, the Balkans were Europe's craziest quilt of all. Seas and islands of nationalities as different as Serbs, Rumanians, Germans, Greeks and Turks washed around each other in a confusion that defied the drawing of political frontiers. Through the centuries bigger nations, practicing the policy of divide and rule, had kept the Balkans divided and conquered. But a new spirit was abroad. At last federation seemed feasible. Russia...
Young Home "had no profession. He never did a day's work. He became simply, on a lifelong, international, and really magnificent scale, the man who came to dinner." Always ready to help the children with their lessons or admire a housewife's new quilt pattern, he was taken in by families all over New England. He repaid hospitality liberally by dispensing "spirit prescriptions" to the ailing and smelling out long-lost relatives and title deeds...
...find out how U.S. doctors and civilians are taking it, TIME queried correspondents in medium-sized towns from coast to coast, got replies as varied as a patchwork quilt...
Like the U.S. Government, some U.S. defense plants have overexpanded since Pearl Harbor, are now temporarily a crazy quilt of inefficient use of manpower-too many workmen, too few foremen, long waits, misplanned work, shovel-leaning by workers who have nothing to do. One bad example was turned up last week in Seattle, where for two weeks Reporter Don Magnuson worked in a shipyard building destroyers, found enough loafing and inefficiency for a series of shocker stories for the Seattle Times. Reported Magnuson...