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Right now, an Argentine syndicate operates the Casino. But one of the two managers, Bernardo Vaistij (of Yugoslav descent), has just been hustled across the border by Chilean cops, who suddenly and conveniently discovered that he was wanted by police in Argentina. The other Argentine manager is expected to quit when the season ends in March. Whispered reason: a new administration has come to power in Chile; the country's biggest casino is too profitable a business for anyone but a deserving government supporter...
...floor. The Soviet Government had caught the Italian police redhanded in the act of disseminating a confidential report that Russia was sponsoring an underground terrorist organization throughout Italy. Called the "Troika" (Russian for a vehicle drawn by three horses abreast), the organization was a ripe blend of Italian, Yugoslav and Russian comrades. In response to Russia's protest, Premier de Gasperi expressed "deepest regret." The existence of the Troika has been confirmed by the Italian police and by Allied intelligence services...
...Tito-sponsored Yugoslav Constitution, adopted last January, solemnly proclaimed: "Private property and private initiative in the economy are guaranteed." Last week, under Tito's personal chairmanship, a bill nationalizing the entire Yugoslav economy, including "all movable and immovable property as well as all rights of ownership which belong to enterprise," was presented to the Yugoslav National Assembly. It passed unanimously...
...dropped all talk of a "customs union" and other projects that would have made Trieste a Yugoslav colony. He still insisted on two points: 1) that the government power in the Free Territory of Trieste should reside in a popular assembly rather than in the U.N.-appointed governor; 2) that a definite time limit be set in the treaty for withdrawal of Anglo-U.S. troops...
Anyone naive enough to expect that relief shipments to countries in Russia's sphere would produce immediate political results was certain to be disappointed. In the Yugoslav crisis last August, the U.S. public (with some prodding from the Hearst press) cried "ingrate" at Tito's Government, which took and distributed U.S. food, and shot down U.S. planes...