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...country. On the heels of the arrest of onetime Premier Milan Stoyadinovich (TIME, April 29), police last week clapped into jail a onetime police chief of Belgrade, Milan Achimovich. Slovene Nationalists issued a manifesto attacking Germany and Italy, which the Italian press promptly blamed on Allied intrigue. A Yugoslav trade commission reached Moscow and presumably talked also about diplomatic recognition of and by the big Slav brother. But Italy and Germany were on Yugoslavia's doorstep and Russia was far away...
Sixteen other German barges were still held, with five Hungarian ones, two belonging to Socony-Vacuum. The Yugoslav permits are a new clog in Germany's supply line wherein the fine hand of British diplomacy may or may not be seen. Should Germany decide to impose her own control of through traffic on the Danube, fireworks might well follow in the Balkans...
...cheerful group then shut themselves behind locked doors, and talked their problems over. When they came out, they handed reporters a communique all about their "spirit of reciprocal understanding and cooperation"-but not a word about who will get first pickings on transit of Rumanian oil, Hungarian wheat, Yugoslav fruits, Bulgarian tobacco...
First day of the conference the Ministers met for three and a half hours; called on Yugoslav Prime Minister Dragisha Cvetkovitch; lunched with Prince Paul, Senior Regent, and Princess Olga at their white castle overlooking the Danube; left calling cards at the homes of Co-Regents Dr. Ivo Perovitch and Dr. Radenko Stankovitch and of Dr. Vladimir Matchek, the Croat leader. Second day they talked again, dined at the Officer's Club, made pleasant, diplomatic speeches. Third day they conferred again, went back home...
...Soviet Russia on Hungary's northeast border is a controlling factor in the present tentative Balkan lineup. If that line-up holds and Rumania has to fight Russia, Hungary will not grab for Transylvania, nor Bulgaria for Dobruja. Hungary may even remain benevolently neutral and let Italian and Yugoslav war supplies cross into Rumania. Never were the Balkans more united than they seemed last week against Russia. A cordial exchange even took place between Bulgaria and her old enemy Turkey...