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Hints of trouble had been rumbling through Belgrade for months. Last January the Serbian Central Committee darkly warned of "chauvinistic, nationalistic, localist interferences" with Yugo slavian economic reforms. In February, President Tito himself struck out against unnamed party members who were "sabotaging" the nation's future. Who were the villains obstructing the dramatic social and economic changes that have swept Yugoslavia over the past decade? Last week they were revealed...
Italy's fever-eyed film queen Gina (Go Naked in the World) Lollobrigida prepared to become Canada's most glamorous immigrant of the year. Reason: she was weary of trying to untangle Italian red tape that prevented her stateless Yugo slavian-born husband, Dr. Milko Skofic, from becoming an Italian citizen. Father and son, 2½-year-old Milko Jr., winged off with Gina from Rome on a trip that will end in Toronto, where the family will buy a home, hopefully apply for Canadian citizenship...
Those who saw in the recent settlement of the Hungarian-Jugo-Slavian affair the beginning of a new era in international politics should be interested by an item in yesterday's newspapers dealing with the equally fascinating, although less important, quarrel between Italy and Abyssinia. These reports announced that, in a statement apparently signed by Premier Mussolini himself, the Italian government had refused arbitration, maintaining that the case was one of pure aggression on the part of the Ethiopians. This statement has a certain whimsical humor, suggesting an image of the Roman eagle fighting for its life against the black...
Momentarily the street was stunned. There was nervous selling after the first reports of the deaths. Foreign exchange became active as French francs were sold. French, Jugo-Slavian and Italian bonds were sold. Then the trading quieted
After a few weeks of preliminary study in Paris, Professor Conant will proceed to Jugo-Slavia to study the Byzantine churches of the 13th and 14th centuries, peculiar to the Balkan peninsula, under the guidance of the Jugo-Slavian government. From here he will go to Athens to take part in the excavation of the Parthenon, and will then return to the Abbey of Cluny. On returning from Europe he hopes to publish a survey of the architecture of the Balkan churches, which have received little attention from archeologists...