Word: sava
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another yarn, Call of the Sea, tells of a banquet and ball given by the nautical-minded British ambassador on a log raft in Belgrade's Sava River. It is a superb affair until the raft slips its moorings and makes a break for the Danube. Passing under Belgrade castle, the soused "Flower of European Diplomacy" is spotted by Comrade-Gunner Popovic, who takes the diplomats for hostile Czech paratroopers. Hoping to distinguish himself, possibly even to win his country's "Order of Mercy and Plenty with Crossed Haystacks," Popovic puts a safety match to the castle cannon...
...plane took off on the morning of Nov. 19 from Erding, near Munich, with supplies for the Belgrade embassy: stationery, canned food, toilet articles. Its course, laid out to avoid the Iron Curtain, was south over the Alps to Venice, eastward to Zagreb, then down the Sava River to Belgrade...
...reported itself over Zagreb about on schedule, but Yugoslav radio monitors later computed that it was actually over Varazdin, 40 miles away (see map) ; apparently the pilot had mistaken the Drava for the Sava...