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old were
Among the peasants-80 per-
Belgrado. which young and NOTICED the change compelled to march with pick cent of Yugoslavia's population since my last visit on and shovel three times a week because
they resent the
the very first station rations.
on pain of forfeiting their Government compelling them
after the train had crossed
to sell the lion's share of their
the border into Yugoslavia. The number of politicar produce at very low controlled meetings in factories, offices, prices to the State; because last year's drought has tilt them A man with Q rakishly and residential districts
they still has badly; and because angled lambakin hat, long cost, been drastically cut down. A fear the Government means to high . Icather boots, and citizen
moustaches strutted them in
enormous
up and down the platform be hind a youth who was selling beer and noît drinks,
The
who does
and not attend nationalise
collectivizo no longer penalised, their land. nos 13 a factory hand who
Among
the factory workera -walks out on some Marxist
because when tho factories bore in order to get on with his
recently transferred from State ownership to OWEET-
--were-~~~-
in the lambskin work. hat called out all sorts of good In their desire to think out ship by the workers the first things ́to eat and drink and things smoke as though he had them from
afresh and get away result was that wages were re- the Soviet
duced for sale. The crowd loved it. The's
doctrinaires, work was demanded. Because stül further, and more Government has even. For everyone knew that those
So far
as to restore food and clothes are dimeult to. things were unobtainable
to Bone day. but were part of
of private enterprise buy for the money they earn. station vendors ordinary wares which had been taken over by distribution, despite
the in some of the smaller concerns
In the towns because food before Socialism camo to the State.
American Yugoslavia. They joined in with extravagant suggestions,
The tall, black-coated police-
MAD at the station entrance
measure
We
can talk :
It
stolidly looked on and took no MOST interesting of all: notice. Two years ago, when I was last hero, that scene would Yugoslavs to be seen talking
have been impossible..
Is once more possible for
to foreigners like myself with- out having to fear the bon-
In the Brst place the jokester sequences. I have been mada would never have dared to put a temporary member of ព
ak, has broken down badly. Raflons are not being honoured, and
the free market prices charged by the peasants are so high that town dwellers have be able to cal. to sell their last possessions to
Their profit?
someone act; le he had done, Belgrade club unthinkable the MOSCOW and the Comin-
someone in a leather coat and a last time I was here, leather cap would have sprung
There
form are certainly doing their best to profit from it all. up from nowhere and taken
talk Imen
freely, They devole a total of 18 hours him off to the local headquar- frankly, and even
bitterly, a day of broadcasting time to And
belleve me despite the Yugoslavia, gofety and laughing chatter of
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When I got to my hotel I their
the young men and girls taking They have special training for Yugoslav agents evening stroll along the schools looked round for the two boulevards or village high and agitators in Rumania and
leather-coated plainclothes men
pend agents
who used to be on guard in the streets, despite this new polley Bulgaria, They
of liberalisation-there is a BCTOSS with leaflets, slogans,
great
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content and hostility to the Gone is that "voluntary" Government everywhere labour on the building sites to Yugoslavia.
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By Cedric Berrington
former com-
that I might hope The expert, a decision from this mander of the famous Italian
N July 28, the day after to indicate I was fined £188,000 for a just for "being suspected of at- court, which I had hardly dared to hope for after the mockery tempting to smuggle," I had of;the original trial. to say good-bye to my crew.
November 20 came at last, and They
were and to leave me once more I made the familiar behind, and, as for me, I should journey to the Court of Appeal. sorely miss Pierre, my French
And now, to my mate, and, Lee, my faithful found that this was
diamay, I not the American.
henring of the appeal but mere ly the appointing of the expert.
When they had gone I was to "Cameroni C,"
transferred
Now I had to fight back the
liner Rex, had only given the prosecution's side of the picture. It was a picture which was soon to be torn to shreds by counsel; for the defence.
new
'look'-
with lenses
by WENDY TOWNSEND
in
was Y, the short-sighted of cases, for what are called
A
10
Their agents have orders to organise cells in readiness for
Cominform D-Day, when the
liberation
the frontier.
But
progress,
armies werd over
they are making no
No leadots or stickers have
of been
my seen by any felends. Long gone are the old days after the break between Moscow and Belgrado when Moscow still had a clandestine printing press in Belgrade on which it could print an in- dictment of Tito.
-No column
JOW am not saying that Late in the afternoon Avvo-
About Nere are no Cominformists 'cosmetic' reasons. who
red setter, blinked cato De Vincentis,
of people percent
with at large in Yugoslavia. A dis- assisting, in my defence, started startled eye-lid and his poor sight-and the poor-sighted
oficial gruntled Communist to speak. His oration (there is
other word for it) lasted for view from the high consult are 30 percent of the popula- overruled or ignored must al- Ways be under temptation to over an hour, and, at its con- ing-room chair swept into tion-refuse to wear spectacles."
A woman dissatisfied with her change his allegiance, hoping clusion there was dead silence sharp new focus. He had.
reward and preferment one of half
just been fitted with contact natural eye-colouring can now for the a dozen large cells arst feelings of despair. They in the crowded court room.
Cominformista change it with tinted lenses. when containing nine beds.
could play with me like this I wanted to clap. Though not lenses..
Women sometimes decide on an invade, H ever they do, This particular coll, which was for years I thought of all the understanding a word except
orn deeper, This is the newest research enhanced blue,
But that is where the secret usually reserved for foreigners, grim stories I had heard. Of my own name, which
come Into the picture, generally Included one or two
spoken often enough, I knew idea of London Contact Lens brown when their true colouring police +++++++ I had been terrific per Cilnic specialist Reginald Tyler. Is indeterminate. A complete re- For with all their new un- escapees from 'ex-chetny “coun-
Jones. He tried it on a pet dog-versal of colour is hardly ever obtrusiveness, they are - more tries and scamen of various
Cedrio Berrington, Schooner formance.
which blundered into chair legs, requested, nationalities who had disagreed skipper and former Squadron-
was so short-sighted. It with the police.
Leader to the B.A.F., spent It was now 7.15 p.m., and the couldn't catch a ball. One of these latter was the eight months in an Italian guol
before an appeal court decided court,
ras
:
But anti-climax was to follow.
anxious for its dinner,
and
| sixth engineer' of an English
mail boat who, judging by the he had been wrongly convicted decided to adjour.
on s charge of attempting to scars on his head, appeared to have taken on half the Genoa arzie cigarettes, and set him
free. In this anal instalment ho for the seventh and last time.. police force single-handed.
tells of his fight to prove his
After a few days I was joined innocence.
In "Cameruni C" by a young, ++++++ educated, Englishman who spoke,
Greyhounds who cannot dep
Auburn-haired
efficient than ever.
No, there is nothing of what one could call a Stalinist pene-
20-year-old
or administrative machine. their eyes on the hare, and race Elizabeth Cuthbert, from Hartration of the Yugoslav economic Five days later I took my seat horses to whom the winning row, secretary of the" London There is no Fifth Column in
Lens sums up the woman's eye view of contact invader with sabotage. lenses: "They
tho make all difference to one's, self-con- fidence. In appearance and therefore in polso."
At 4-15 pm, the court re- tired to coulder (ta verdlet..
The consul and vice-consul
perfect Italian, having lived in prisoners lying for months and came over to me and explained
the country for 16 years. "R" was to be my counsellor and guide in matters. Italian for the rest of my stay in Marassi.
even years awaiting trial.
I
smoked
cigarette
from. Micky's stoicism.
He sat unwhimperingly through un hour with the optician.
A preliminary was the drop- ping of a liquid anaesthetic into what had been going on. : his eyes, then the white shaft The weather was now bitterly
after of light of a retinoscope torch cold. There was no heating of cigarette as I chatted with them like instrument used by opilcians any sort in the prison cells, and and tried not to wonder what was shone into them "Cameroni C!!! was too the fierce North winds from was
nine tenants, so the mountains sent ley draughts room next door. crowded with
happening in the judges' "R" and I managed to be put through the cracks and crevices- in a small cell on our own, and of the fitting window frames. lator on we had a cell each,
next door to each other.g
Appeal - Filed
On Christmas Day three of
Best Moment
us the only Englishmen In the JUST before 8.30 the ave ju- pingen filed back into court and prison foregathered in cell. We played chess, sang all the president started to read the THIS was the first of many the English songs we could verdict from the sheet of paper
concessions accorded to me think of, and in the afternoon I in his hand,
by the governor of the prison, made Boine tea. I bolled the
consideration, as fer as was in bowls, mairing a
tepid white mixture like putty was plastered on to the oyoball. From the mould was gauged the exact measure for a transparent plastic lens. ⠀⠀
Micky was given an invisible plastic eyepiece that looked no more than a fine, film on his eye This is one of range of "shella" used in estimating the size of
who treated me with the greatest water in one of the aluminium Hammond,
After the first few words, } lens that will be needed.
the vice-consul, fire the floor
towards me, wide his power, while I was in of the cell with sheets torn turned
smile on his face, and nodded. Maraasl
from
ancient German magazine, circa 4880. The cell That will always remain `one
Cost of contact lenses for
Meanwhile my lawyer had was rather full of smoke but of the best moments of my life. 250 to £42.
hurian beings is usually from
filed an appeal. He tried to get the tea was a huge success. me out on bail `but there was nothing to be done about it. unkli
the appeal, hearing, which was sot for. October 13.
The court rapidly emptied
The owner of a dog or horse! So Christmas passedi and and, for me, there was the in- with defective sight would be painfully for us in our fey cells evitable Italian anti-climax: 1 -the New Year was born. was solemnly mantcled by my charged about £10 extra.
and taken Carabineri guards On January 15, for the sixth back to my Af.9 a.m. on October 19 I ap
No animal få yet weiring con- cell in: Maruar!! tact lenser. But research. has peared in the Court of Appeal time. I entered the Court of
Italian Justice had triumphed, proved that it is just as feasible "THE WIND AND THE RAIN" the dock. There was another fast, the case really began.
of Genoa. I was "not alone in Appeal and 'this time, at long but Italian police methods as for humans.AL
stank as usuali appellant before me, and it soon. becante obvious that - his; càsc
not Anish that day.
The following day, the same thing occurred, and my case was [adjourned until October 20.
by
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can I am convinced that Marshal Tito could afford to loosen up his Police State a lot more bes fore there would be any inside threat from Moscow.
Miss Cuthbert has been wear ing contact lenses for five years She bad them as a 21st birth- day present. "The best one I had." she says...
Research on rabbits has made I was released
at nom next possible improved. Attings, for | Fas day after being fingerprinted human eye.comfort.
Newest are the cornea lenses. IN the afternoon when the ex- and photographed, in spite of
port gave his evidence, he my protests. It was the same These. are no larger-than- a put us back where we started. for everybody, they assured, thumb-nail, covering only the
to hear the evidence, decided was inside the limit.
that it would have to appoint Now, the captais of an expert to decide whether
Was Insido Italian Waders at
prominent eyes.
The epigram that' non seldom make parses at girls in glasses, seems to have echoed the secret foreboding of generation of short-sighted women.
In effect he said that if the me; astonished at my objections, centre of the eye. They are most women " with calculations of the - Ceretto's- Innocent or guilty, the ricorda popular among On the
was adjoined. 20th, it until the 30th, and on the 30th captain were correct then Sun- are taken just the samel the Court, having at last started shine was where he said she
So I am tree, my "ship and the cargo restored to me, Caretto had estimated his posi- But my ship is at the bottom tion by his chains, revolutions of Genos harbour, where the time of the Ceretto's attack and wrist watch. To say that motorbout drivers of the gallant The case won «
this rough-and-ready Figanza stood and watched her Journed us
method would be an under drown on January Just 10 the statement,
w days before the court ordered dared not › think- Code of Bee Casperating was fixing Sunshine's post her to be restored to me.
σ the
already overstrated tion constantly by means of night up to the end she wallon nerves of my wife anxiously compass bearings, soxtant angles for me, wounded and alone, but walling for news in Tandler, and radiod bearings, Mind Wax was too long is coming a But I was overjoyed that the certain of me position to within ten dar too lang p Court had ordered the appoint a few hundred yarda any-Good-kan Told:ship. The loud low of an experts Taif memed momak
1300 la over how.3 Sleep) well.
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Practitionery report that
percentage of 14 women high change from spectacles to con tact lenses for no other rússon than vanitrate
Comments noe specialist: "IL is rather marprising that, WO KU now, getting mors enen pasienta sta then wolment, many to the mu karty.
---(London Express Service).
Eventually I hope he does. For I like to hear Serbs sing.
--(London Express Heroica)
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