MANY AUTOGRAPHS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21793, 7 May 1934, Page 7

MANY AUTOGRAPHS

YUGOSLAVIAN VISITOR COLLECTIONS ROUND WORLD With a collection of 30,000 auto* ( graphs, many of them those of world f notabilities, Mr. Milcrad Raitchevitch,. a Yugoslav author and journalist, ar- .. rived by tho Monterey from Sydney on' Saturday. The autographs, contained in' a specially-bound volume, include those of King Gustav of Sweden, Signor Mussolini, Marshal von Hindenberg and Mustaplia Kemal Pasha. That of King Alexander of Yugoslavia is given pride of place. v .

Mr. Raitchevitch, who intends to gather more autographs during his tour, of New Zealand, has been travelling the world since 1910 as a special correspondent of the Gras Beorgrad, a Yugoslavian newspaper. He has studied social and economic conditions and written a number of books dealing with his travels. He has just completed*#, tour of Australia. %

Yugoslavia, he said, was one of the most prosperous countries in the world.: It was a country of small farmers;- each" family being satisfied with its house, its gardens and its herd of cattle. There was no room for Fascists. Communists or anarchists. One of the methods by 1 which the country's economic ills had been overcome was by reverting to a largo extent to barter. Agricultural products and livestock were exported as payment for such, commodities as silk and cloth.