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Knickerbocker's jolt led him to write a letter to Texas' Republican Senator John Tower, protesting "a treasonous situation" in which four Yugoslav pilots and four maintenance men were being trained at Perrin in the use of the F-86. By last week angry Texans had formed a "National Indignation Convention" that was drawing crowds of 2,000 and more at its rallies. And the fuss stirred up by Texan Knickerbocker was making national headlines about the policies of three U.S. administrations on military aid to Communist Yugoslavia...
Those policies go well beyond the mere training of Yugoslav airmen: under the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, the U.S. sold, at discount rates, tanks, guns and some 550 jet fighters, fighter-bombers and training aircraft to Yugoslavia. Upon departing from office. President Eisenhower left for John Kennedy a list of several programs he would want to review. Among them was a proposal for selling 130 F-86D jets to Yugoslavia for $10,000 each (original cost: about $345,000). The sale of those planes, listed as obsolescent (cries Texas' Knickerbocker: "The 'obsolete' F-86 is the same...
...Yugoslavia likewise took the Socialits path. But the Yugoslav leaders by by their revisionist policy contraposed Yugoslavia to the Socialist camp and the international Communist movement, thus threatening the loss of the revolutionary gains of the Yugoslav people . . . The line of Socialist construction in isolation, detached from the world community of Socialist countries, . . . is reactionary and politically dangerous because it does not unite, but divides the peoples in face of the united front of imperialist forces, because it nourishes bourgeois-nationalist tendencies and may ultimately lead to the loss of Socialist gains." And to the Communist mind, this is entirely...
...made wild public comment in defense of his Yugoslav pals, was picked up in 1949 by East Berlin Vopos and imprisoned for six months. On release, he drifted to the Netherlands, began freelancing anti-Communist cartoons that found quick favor in the Dutch Press...
...prominent Yugoslav nuclear physicist and the Yugoslav Ambassador to the United States will visit the University today as part of a four-day trip to Boston...