Word: zagreb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story turns on an ambassador's diary, which is stolen from a Paris embassy and concealed aboard the Paris-Trieste-Zagreb express. As the train rushes on through the night, the plot drags tediously from one compartment to another, deliberately involving a whole gallery of British tintypes, a sprinkling of Frenchmen and a lone American G.I. In the resultant overcrowding, both action and suspense are very nearly suffocated. Following in a long line of brilliant British thrillers-on-wheels (e.g., Night Train, The Lady Vanishes), Sleeping Car rides at the end of a slow freight...
Much Hope. Nearly all the assembly's decisions were unanimous. Chairman and newly elected president was Yugoslavia's esteemed, bull-necked Andrija Stampar, rector of the University of Zagreb. He had, said one delegate, a "unanimity complex." He would make assembly procedure a personal issue: "If you have confidence in your chairman you will adopt this item"; or "I would be the most unhappy man in the world if the assembly rejected this proposal." WHO, Dr. Stampar thinks, should not set out to be a super health department for the world, but rather a clearinghouse for vital information...
Professor A. Premeru of Zagreb listed the following...
Declared Dr. D. Julius, director of the Mental Hospital at Zagreb: "The greater part of the war criminals were drawn from among so-called 'normal' people. ... On killed or captured Germans we found touching letters, full of tenderness, love letters-and photographs showing atrocities carried...
...Yugoslavia, which at last reports had 157,000 cases. Even in comparatively well-fed Zagreb, T.B. had risen...