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OZNA (the Yugoslav equivalent of the Russian NKVD) is busy rounding up collaborators and interrogating suspects. The press is tightly controlled and the courts -on the admission of the Yugoslavs themselves-are sadly in need of reform and reorganization. The affairs of state are rigidly administered by Tito and a few close cronies. Foreign Minister Subasich and others who were added to the Partisan cabinet last March have little real power...
...Yugoslav officials admit mistakes. But they argue that British and U.S. observers do not take sufficient account of the fact that, while Yugoslavia was occupied, there were those who fought the Germans and those who collaborated. Until the collaborators are dealt with, these officials say, it is impossible to institute a democracy as the West knows...
...foreign observers in Belgrade agree that Russia is not guiding Yugoslav internal or external policy. On the other hand, this does not mean that Russia does not approve of what Tito is doing. Tito knows the ways of the Russians and does not need guidance...
Premier Marshal Tito last week charged that Greek forces had fired across the Yugoslav frontier in an effort "to provoke us." Thousands of Macedonians, he said, had escaped into Yugoslavia to escape Greek terrorism. "Our soldiers," Tito added, "have not replied with a single shot." At the same time Moscow, which last week reported similar atrocities from Macedonia, announced that the National Front Government of Federal Macedonia had protested to the Yugoslav Government that "fascist" Greek organizations, supported by units of the Greek Army, were carrying on a reign of terror. The Macedonian organization, said Tass, official Russian news agency...
Next afternoon he went up Puget Sound to a famed stretch of salmon water off Anderson Island. No fisherman, the President got into a skiff with a crew of willing advisers: Governor Wallgren; Nick Bez, a burly Yugoslav who operates Alaskan fishing fleets; and Costa Lazzaratti, the Governor's excitable Italian cook. Despite them he hauled in nothing but a sharklike dogfish. But the wind was cool, the day bright, and a nearby fisherman presented him with a 12-lb. king salmon...