LONG 20 In Natural Colors VOLKMAR WENTZEL American Processional: History on Canvas With 38 11 lustra ii una 33 Paintings JOHN and BLANCHE LEE PER Flags of the United Nations With IBS niuvtratLons 180 Paintinfcft ELIZABETH W. I saw n land e mingled with Some foreboding. This Cuwmunist mufi- try, expelled by Soviet Russia mid its satel- lites, cannot forget that it baa a pistol nt its back — and that here, in Sarajevo, an assassin's bUJlrta exploded World War 1. Typical was a stop in Zagreb, where a prim, while-haired lady in black stepped out nf the crowd around the i. Bui lint's so Tar! Can it be possible? I confronted a burly man, stripped to the walsl. I» makr thr ruulun »truii j. Hire In Sarajevo, a Serbian UudtrM. The wur molodrt ladn? In an upper roiuii, lure except for laluV. I'Tumrnatling rrowrls, liirgeSy o6-ftu! Sidewalk vvTKiors stiW iLppIt lafoc from big casks, A l»«d-5 n? In an nlmost empty corner cafe we asked for cups of chocolate in W-inun, French, and Kng- li. Thr waiter IjmuuHt u« eai h h vmalj pud- dlhg, We tried orderitip coffee an-1 «oi it — ersatz. The bill fnr wrn came to ihe equiv- alent nf J3. Al the Icunl cxchaniie rate, a U. In I4J u iii. Asking OUT way to the Futnik office, I noiii rtl wc were on Frankliiut Roose- velta Street. House- wives with martyred looks -hopped long olid thought twice before buying. By cable car we climbed to Zagreb's Upper Town anrl Inst a few centuries in 33 many rmmlL'-, Ms central landmark Is 13th-century St. Former miners, now Government building, border the church « uurc-. Under the old city '5 mte remaining gale, peas- ant women knelt at St. In Ihe back- ground U arc of frit tori c- exhaled a elnud of smoke. Mammoth apartment houses, some unfinished, gleamed while rn ihe Aim. A gang of men arid women, shoveled gravel into small cars and trundled them on tracks t« big troughs. Others mixed cement or tarried bricks up four flights to workers hitrh on woollen scaffolding;. Fn answer hr showed us ration nwporii enabling the holder to buy soiree consumer Roods and food at controlled prices. Only traffic hazards were lumbering oxcarts, farm wagons, and flocks tsf sheep. A pitiless sun searched the rich earth; vast fields of runted corn and sunflowers withered in the rfnmmrring heat. Widespread drought, we later learned, de- stroyed some 4,000,000 tons of food and fnd- der during ther torrid summer, conjuring ujj the specter of famine Near our destination we drove past the stark skeletons of unfinished building that mark New Belgrade on Ihe old city s imtckms. Huri«ariaiis f and Turks ruled it before modern herbs gained iheir independence. Today few old buildings remain; new or rebuilt structures stand out everywhere in vi n wra 1 h e roi I bri k h t ness. Louvf-Kpenkcr, ItcSifradt: A I ami Clock Musk blaring from a loud-speaker atop Bel- grade's highest buildine woke ufi at 6 utlf first morning. Belgrade brings to focus the spiril, hopes, acromplbhments. But many projects remain un- finished for lack of labor or materials. People wail hours in long lines for b
