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...succeed. "Seeing that you do not want me to go on," he shouted, "then I hereby accuse Comrade Petar Stambolic of stealing my wife." The congress was stunned: Comrade Stambolic, sitting stone-faced on the platform behind Djuric, is no less a personage than the Premier of Serbia and one of Tito's closest friends. Comrade Djuric began to sputter out his bill of particulars, until someone had the presence of mind to turn off the microphone...
...Curt Heinburg, economic counselor, had served as a chief in the political division under Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop. He had worked on the "solution of the Jewish problem in Serbia," i.e., had helped deport Jews to slave labor, concentration camps, or death. He resigned after the investigations began...
...more than a century since its founding by King Louis Philippe in 1831, the men of the Foreign Legion, the Kepis Blancs, have fought and died for France in almost continuous campaigning in Algeria, in the Crimea, in Mexico, Tonkin, Dahomey, the Sudan, Madagascar, Morocco, the Dardanelles, Syria, Serbia and France itself. In six years of fighting the Communists, more than 7,000 Legionnaires have died in Indo-China alone. "You Legionnaires," a French general once promised them, "you are soldiers who were meant to die, and I am sending you where...
...horizon of Yugoslavia-Canada relations. Tito has notified Ottawa that one Radan Radican Grujicic is a refugee in Canada and should be sent back to his homeland to stand trial for 1,000 political murders. Grujicic, according to Belgrade, was chief of Hitler's Gestapo in Serbia. In 1948 he entered Canada as a D.P. Until recently Grujicic lived in a Toronto rooming house; his present whereabouts are unknown, except perhaps to the R.C.M.P...
Died. Stephen Bonsal, 86, author, diplomat, and in his time, one of the world's top foreign correspondents; after long illness; in Washington, D.C. At 20, he was in the Balkans covering the war between Bulgaria and Serbia for the New York Herald, from then on made the world his beat. Between 1889 and 1911, he chronicled wars and skirmishes in Morocco, Macedonia, Manchuria, Cuba, the Philippines, Venezuela, Russia (the 1907 revolution), Mexico. As a lieutenant colonel, Bonsal served as President Wilson's interpreter at Versailles, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Unfinished Business, his incisive footnotes...