Word: yugoslavian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago Yugoslavian editors flayed Hollywood for misrepresenting the Balkans' trains de luxe in the cinema Orient Express, scare-headed AMERICAN FILM LIES ABOUT YUGOSLAVIA (TIME, April 1). Last week the Yugoslavian Government suppressed as long as possible a secret which finally leaked out: for the first time any Yugoslav could remember since the War, the mail car of the Orient Express had been robbed...
...express draws into the station in Subotica (with the station name in Cyrillic and Latin script!) a Yugoslavian soldier boards the train and inexcusably in the roughest way, with no explanations, arrests the two Americans and the Slav. ... In the middle of the room officers are sitting around a large table eating. They throw bones on the floor, drink wine and lick their fingers! This abominable scene filled the American public with wonder and at the time caused merriment and hilarity. The officers speak half Serbian and half English! . . . The fugitives travel by automobile toward Belgrade. On the way they...
...deigning to apply epithets to such a film, dignified Politika urged the Yugoslavian Government to deal with Fox Films in the fashion of Polish Dictator Pilsudski: "Last year Warner Brothers made a film in which two gangsters had Polish names. . . . Poland promptly banned all Warner Brothers films and continued this ban until the company issued its unqualified apologies...
...Yugoslavian version the prodigal's mother and sister did the murder, the mother hanged herself, the sister threw herself into a well. The A. P. dispatch, however, added one new bit of journalistic invention: "The 10,000 dinars will pay for a triple funeral...
...Leonide Pitamic, Yugoslavian Minister to the U. S LL.D...