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...disinterest than propriety in their failure to notice restrictions upon their freedom--an apathy bred, more likely than not, by a considerable increase in wealth since the Communists took over. True, politics seem to be discussed to some extent in private circles as the daughter of an important Zagreb factory manager assured me in Vienna. But, in the same discussion, she mentioned in a nonchalant (sort of "well, of course, Ike is a bit senile") tone, that she is not in the least a Communist but rather a socialist. Opposing the Communists is like opposing the Republicans or the Democrats...
...other time I received an equally evasive treatment--from a Catholic priest in Zagreb who allowed me to ask a couple of questions after having shown me his church. After he had explained that the great majority of Crotions embrace the Catholic religion, I remarked, "And you have no trouble with the state?" "That is a subject on which we do not speak," he said rather good naturedly and hustled back to his sacristy...
...Zagreb, while searching up and down the dingy narrow stairway of one of the better apartment buildings for the girl who had assured me in Vienna that she was a socialist and not a Communist, a young man of about twenty-four of five years stopped me and asked me in fairly good English if he could assist. Having ascertained that the girl was away in the country, I asked the man if he would like to join me that afternoon for coffee and tell me something about Zagreb. After a moment of nervousness he said, "I think maybe...
...improbable origins. His father wanted him to be a pastry cook. But Behrendt boned up instead on Upton Sinclair and Karl Marx, spent part of his youth flirting with the left. He worked on road-building projects for Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia, took a free course at a Zagreb art school, moved to East Berlin on a job illustrating books for prospective young Communists. But after Stalin denounced Titoism, Behrendt became disillusioned...
...Ninth Circle (Jadran; Interprogress Trading) proves that Yugoslavia, notable among moviemakers chiefly as the place where Italian directors went to shoot horse pictures when their budgets ran low, has more to offer than well-disciplined extras. The film is a love story, set in Zagreb during the purge of the Jews in the early years of World War II. A Jewish family is arrested, except for a 17-year-old girl, Ruth (Dusica Zegarac). Loyal Christian friends hide her and, to give her legal status, arrange a marriage with their 19-year-old son Ivo (Boris Dvornik...