Bulgaria's Nikola Petkoff was barely buried when the Communists in neighboring Yugoslavia prepared to bury another democratic leader—brilliant, popular chief of the Serbian Peasant Party, Dragoljub Yovanovich, 52. He was the Communists' biggest game since the late General Draja Mihailovich. In Belgrade's Supreme Court, presided over by the same judge who sent Mihailovich to the firing squad, Yovanovich last week went on trial for "treason . . . defamatory propaganda in the foreign reactionary press . . . conspiracy. . . ."
A thin, square-faced Serb peasant, Yovanovich has been a lifelong socialist. He advocated a form of democratic, agrarian federation...
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