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Into a big exposition hall at Zagreb last week trooped 2,000 delegates of the Yugoslav Communist Party for their first party congress in four years. At first, everything moved according to plan...
...plane took off on the morning of Nov. 19 from Erding, near Munich, with supplies for the Belgrade embassy: stationery, canned food, toilet articles. Its course, laid out to avoid the Iron Curtain, was south over the Alps to Venice, eastward to Zagreb, then down the Sava River to Belgrade...
...reported itself over Zagreb about on schedule, but Yugoslav radio monitors later computed that it was actually over Varazdin, 40 miles away (see map) ; apparently the pilot had mistaken the Drava for the Sava...
...Macrae was born in 1923 in East Prussia, where his father was a vice consul, spent his first eight years in Königsberg, Dunkirk and Porto Alegre, Brazil. After returning to England to go to boarding school, he spent his summers rejoining his parents in such places as Zagreb and Moscow. As an R.A.F. navigator during the war, he trained in Canada and England, then spent the rest of the war in the Far East, "dropping corned beef into the army in Burma and leaflets on the Japanese...
...Tito's collective farms and Tito's forced deliveries of grains to the state. The peasants had harvested the grain last month on schedule. Yugoslavia's breadbasket was full; for the first time in years, the government prepared to offer wheat for export at the annual Zagreb Fair in September. But farmers were threshing only a fraction of it. On the collective farms (which cultivate 25% of Yugoslavia's farm land-the richest 25%), the peasants alibied that the threshing machines had broken down. Their three-year hitches on the collectives would be up this fall...