LIFE UNDER TITO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27357, 5 April 1950, Page 2

LIFE UNDER TITO

Literature

Excursion Into Yugoslavia Instead of the Briar. By Anne Dacie. HarvilL 10s 6d. Anne Dacie went to Yugoslavia because as an intelligent woman, she wanted to see for herself what the people of that country were doing under Tito and his Communist regime. She was not concerned with politics as such, only the human expression of them, and in her journeyings she found material for both joy and tears. As a correspondent, and as a member of the UNRRA European staff she mixed freely with the people, helping them directly with relief work, and indirectly by writing the tragedy of the war-devastated country for the British press. She travelled through supposedly forbidden territory and mixed freely with the inhabitants, and when the inevitable order to leave was issued she spent some time in Trieste, where she was still closely associated with Yugoslav problems. Miss Dacie’s book is sure to have a wide appeal. It is written with integrity, a passionate conviction of the worth of human values, and a buoyant good humour; perhaps too much humour, some readers might think, and it must be confessed that the girlish laughter becomes a little shrill at times, and the defect is a small one in a most excellent book. E. A. A.