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    "ocrText": "At dinner with the Tugoslavs the other night I had a\nmost interesting conversation. Ne told - that great changes\nhad como about since they had brokem sith the USSR; they had much\nmore recognition of the individual's importance and they had been\nbrought to this because they had to acknowledge that passing edicts\ndid not accomplish anything. People bad to vant to do the things.\nfor instance, there must be cooperatives on the farms because they\njust did not have mohinery enough to make the farms more productive\nunless there vere cooperatives, but they had to go about it slowly\nand eduente the farnira to the point of vanting to dooperate and\nit vas far from being accomplished as yet.\nHe also told - that they bnd passed an edict that all\nMoalem vomen - take off their veils. They even got one hundred\nvomen to agree to take them off, and took them on a grand tour to\nsee Belgrade, etc., but the Moalum vomon did not take off thoir\nveils.\nHe also told me there had been a fearful fight in the\nrevision of their penal code or constitution, but Miss Whiteman\n18 trying to get of * COPT - find out which it\nis. He said it had been just like the USSR article but when\nthey brought it up again it was violently protested on the part\nof large groups among the Tugoalava. They finally succeeded\nin getting dt changed so now it protects the rights of the\nindividual against the government instead of making the state\nsuperior over the individual.\nHe further said they vere so poor it was very\ndifficult for them to do many of the things they would like"
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