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Writer Louis Adamic (The Native's Return, Dinner at the White House), had known hard times in his 38 years in the U.S. He had been a Yugoslav immigrant boy at 14, a newspaper loader, a soldier, a textile worker, a longshoreman. When he moved in 1936 to a century-old farmhouse and 40 acres of land in New Jersey's stony, wooded Hunterdon County hills, he took to the placid rural life with something akin to jubilance. "Louis," nearby residents took to saying, "is a good neighbor-none better...
...Visitors. Adamic had been working for almost three years on a new book, The Eagle and the Roots, in which he pictured Yugoslavia as a democratic nation and a rock sturdily withstanding the tide of Russian Communism. In San Francisco, Yugoslav Correspondent Anton Smole, an old friend of the author, said he was certain that Adamic had been murdered for taking this stand. He also explained why Adamic had slipped away from New Jersey-and why he had quietly gone back...
...Adriatic, they discussed the state of the world. Tito does not think Russia aims at a general war but she might "fall into it." He is in favor of Western rearmament (Bevan is not). Most disturbing question to Reporter Bevan: Can Tito maintain his dictatorial hold on the touchy Yugoslav peasants?* Bevan admitted that the forced seizure by the government of the peasants' pigs and grain was condemned in the Western world. "But," he added defensively, "it is difficult to see how the Yugoslav government could do otherwise...
Some 200 hand-picked Allied officers (and a Yugoslav) watched intently one day last week on Salisbury Plain as Britain demonstrated her prize new .280-cal. rifle. More than simple curiosity was involved: this is the weapon with which Britain hopes to equip not only her own infantrymen (who have been using the bolt-action, single-shot .303-cal. Lee-Enfield since the South African War), but all the North Atlantic Treaty nations. Disagreement over it caused a hitch at the recent small-arms conference in Washington, where Britain's Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell argued...
Died. Carlo Margotti, 60, Archbishop of Gorizia (near Trieste), who for 17 years took part in the touchy Yugoslav-Italian border disputes; of a heart ailment; in Gorizia, Italy. When Tito's Partisans entered Gorizia in 1945, Margotti was captured and sentenced to death as "an enemy of the Slovene people." Later, his sentence was commuted to banishment from Yugoslav territory...