Notes from the Foreign Language Press
A partial summary of articles from several South Slavic-American newspapers of various leanings. The first describes Father Krunoslav Draganovic's eligibility for a US visa. It mentions nothing of his role in escorting Ustase fugitives out of Italy, but proves that Draganovic and another prominent operative on the Ratline, Dr. Dragutin Kamber, were known figures, and that their past, if not their present activities, were being discussed critically at least as early as 1950. The second article describes attacks on Croatian Peasant Party leader Vladko Macek by the Ustase-oriented journal Danica which, ironically enough, would later hire another Draganovic associate, Fr. Dominik Mandic, as editor. The third and fourth articles are of limited interest. The first and last parts of this report have not been located.

 

3. Against Admitting a Former Ustashi to USA.

Glas Kanadskih Srba, Windsor, Ont. October 12
(Voice of Canadian Serbs)

Weekly - Circulation: 3,000
Trend: critical of Croats but Yugoslav-oriented, anti-Tito

Prints Dr. Branko Miljus' protest to the IRO authorities in Rome concerning Dr. Krunoslav Draganovic, formerly a theology professor at the University of Zagreb. Dr. Miljus claims that Dr. Draganovic had been one of the leading active supporters of Dr. Ante Pavelic, ex-head of the German-sponsored Independent State of Croatia. In spite of it, writes Dr. Miljus from Paris, France, the IRO authorities in Rome have declared Dr. Draganovic to be "eligible" for obtaining an entry visa to the United States.

The editor of the paper adds that another notorious Ustashi has already been admitted to this country, and that he now writes fro Dr. Macek's newspapers under his own "dirty" signature. His name is Dr. Dragutin Kamber.

 

Rec'd 11-8-50 from CIA via
Liaison, captioned "Notes from
The Foreign Language Press"

 

4. Renewed Attacks on Dr. Macek's Pro-Yugoslav Stand.

Danica (The Morning Star), Chicago, October 11

Croatian Weekly - Circulation: 7,000Trend: anti-Tito, rabidly separatist

The paper renews its attacks on Dr. Macek's alleged pro-Yugoslav stand. It does not believe that financial reasons are having influence on Dr. Macek to such an extent that he would suppress his true feelings in exchange for the $500.00 he receives monthly from the National Committee for a Free Europe. Still, the paper thinks that Dr. Macek, as the leading spokesman for a whole people, has no business to receive money from a "foreign agency" since it might affect his political independence. Besides, asks the paper, has Dr. Vladko Macek ever told the National Committee for a Free Europe the "real truth" about the Croats - that they want to be no part of any Yugoslavia, not excluding Dr. Macek's, but work instead toward having an independent state of their own with the River Drina as its eastern border.

 

5. Dr. Krnjevic a "bankrupt Politician;"
Bogdan Radica a "Political Opportunist"

Jugoslovenski Americki Olasnik, San Francisco, October 6 (delayed)
(Jugoslav American Herald)

Weekly - Circulation: 3,000
Trend: anti-Tito, Yugoslav nationalist

Taking note of Dr. Juraj Krnjevic's recent visit to the United States and Canada, the paper describes him as a "bankrupt politician" whose chief aim in life is to stir up hatred against the Serbs and destroy the unity among the Yugoslav people. The paper calls Bogdan Radica, who "led Krnjevic around", a "political opportunist" who once worked for Tito and has now joined the ranks of those who "allegedly condemn Pavelic but support all he ever wanted and did."

 

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Weekly - Circulation: 3,000
Trend: anti-Tito, pro-Macek

Under the headline "The Policy of the Voice of America toward the Croatian People," the paper carries a long article (presumably written by Bogdan Radica) about the efforts made in the last few months by "all distinguished Croat emigre circles" to have the Voice of America broadcast also in Croatian, not only in Serbian and Slovenian. The Yugoslav section of the Voice of America is described as consisting of "former leftists, Stojadinovic's, [illegible] and present Fotic's followers" who use past, Greater Serbian methods to rule exclusively by themselves. The article states that the known Croatian newspaperman,

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:: filing information ::
Title: Notes from the Foreign Language Press
Source: CIA, declassified December 24, 1981
Date: 1950 Added: January 25, 2003