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Word: slavonia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silly and that dictatorships are absurd. At any rate, British Novelist Mary McMinnies makes it seem that way. With breathless garrulity she has spun out a story about a raft of people afloat on an ocean of misery in a modern people's republic. (The country is called Slavonia, and it resembles Poland, where she once lived with a British diplomat husband.) The "visitors" of the title -Americans and Britons engaged in the black art of propaganda-never had it so good. Larry Purdoe is editor of the Voice of Britain, his assistant is a non-U type called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Silly Milly in Slavonia | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

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