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...Communist coup of 1948, and Paul Kral, journalist, wants to leave Czechoslovakia. His object is entirely personal: to visit an ailing friend in the U.S. The Communists in the Ministry of the Interior, more interested in politics than in friendship, cannot decide whether to let him go. For that matter, the U.S. consulate is puzzled over whether he ought to be allowed a visa...
When Tito drives through the streets of Belgrade in a bullet-proof car, accompanied by tanks and four truckloads of soldiers, crowds yell: "Tito, Ti-to!" (to the familiar rhythm of "Duce, Du-ce!"). Children chant: "Kral se zenio, Tito se borio" ("The King married, Tito fought"). Ancient ballads praising ex-King Peter's ancestor (Kara George, a prominent Serbian hero and hog farmer) are changed to fit Tito. Sample...
...danger of Bolshevik intrigues, the Government applied to (and received permission from) the Council of Ambassadors for an increase of 3,000 men; but, owing to the opposition of Yugoslavia, Greece and Rumania, the increase was not permitted until Apr. 10 of this year. Shortly after occurred the Sveti Kral bomb outrage (TIME, Apr. 27 et seq.). Bulgaria petitioned the Council for more troops, received permission to raise another 7,000 and maintain them during the pleasure of the Council...
...court martial sitting at Sofia to try persons accused of complicity in the Sveti Kral bomb outrage (TIME, Apr. 27, et seq.), sentenced eight men to death...
Peter Zadgorsky, sacristan of Sveti Kral, for accepting a Communist bribe to permit the plotters to place bombs on the roof of the Cathedral. Prison execution...