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...bishop, Varnava Nastich, was born 36 years ago in Gary (Ind.). In the nine years he lived there before going to Serbia, whence his parents had come, he breathed in the spirit of freedom along with Gary's stench and soot. In Serbia, Nastich worked against Tito's Communists and was brought to trial despite his position in the Orthodox Church, which the Communists cuddle. Here is part of his interrogation by three half-literate Montenegrin judges...
...Public hanging from the "coat rack" gallows, allowing 30 executions at the same time. These scenes were photographed, published as postcards, and issued to German soldiers. The caption read: "This is how trees blossom in Serbia...
James Michael Curley, Mayor of Boston, ex-Governor of Massachusetts, ex-U.S. Congressman, possessor of the Order of St. Sophia (Serbia), the Medal of Gratitude (France), and the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan), let it out that he had added yet another spray of laurel to his fillet. Dartmouth College and Dean Academy prep school, said the Mayor (still at large pending his appeal from a mail-fraud conviction), had asked him for recordings of his speeches, for the instruction of students in oratory...
...Serbia's big brother, Russia, intrigued against Serbia's new ruler. In 1817 Black George was murdered while asleep in a cave, his head sent as a trophy to Constantinople...
Black George's grandson, Peter, a quiet, aging (60) exile in Switzerland, was summoned to the throne in 1903. He led Serbia through the two Balkan wars and World...