Jugoslav Royalists Welcome Ex-King Peter At Rongotai

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29334, 13 October 1960, Page 14

Jugoslav Royalists Welcome Ex-King Peter At Rongotai

(Aew Zealand Press Association/

WELLINGTON, October 12. Jugoslavs in New Zealand who still look on ex-King Peter as their monarch gathered at Wellington airport this afternoon to greet him on his arrival from Sydney. _ The reception was strictly unofficial as the New Zealand Government recognises the Tito administration, but it was a joyous one for Jugoslavs who had come from many parts of Ute C °The jTcheereti and called Live the KtnC* wavy to them and jjßypfiMlye traditional offering of bread *nd. salt trom three girls in nsoonaleuslume. He was then presented with a bouquet of red, white. and blue flowers. ~ I. In an Interview the ex-King said he not to discurs political matters. But. he said, he thought the reason for the “present exodus" of people from Jugoslavia was dissatisfaction with the present regime. Lower immigration quotas everywhere made it particularly hard to continue placing "his” people, he said. The United States, which had once taken

large numbers, had now cut its amounts to “just a trickle." Another of his worries was the "hard core—many of them the original displaced persons of the war’* who, because of old age or incapacity, were not accepted in any numbers in any places but Sweden and Switzerland. Ex-King Peter will only spend a short time in New Zealand. On Friday he leaves Wellington for Auckland to eatch a plane for Fiji and travel to the - United States on his way to his home in the south of France. Wellington C.IB. officers have begun a round-the-clock security watch on the ex-King. They made a two hour search of his hotel before he was allowed in.