YUGOSLAVIA: Orient Express

"The average American believes everything he sees in the movies," complacent Belgraders were informed last week by their favorite newsorgan Politika. Since the article was promisingly headlined American Film Lies About Yugoslavia, the Belgraders read on through a leisurely, contemptuous castigation of Fox Film's Orient Express:

"As the express draws into the station in Subotica (with the station name in Cyrillic and Latin script!) a Yugoslavian soldier boards the train and inexcusably in the roughest way, with no explanations, arrests the two Americans and the Slav. ... In the middle of the...

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