FLED FROM YUGOSLAVIA
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Tennis Star Says Country Is Concentration Camp
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Received Thursday, 10.10 a.m. CAIRO, Oct. 29, The Yugosiav tennis ehampion, Franjo Puncee, said he had fled from the "terror" in \ ugosiavia, and he has appliea for permission for himself and his wife to enter Australia. Puncee, who sueceeded at Wimbledon in 1946, said: "Yugoslavia is a huge concentration camp. I want to live as a free man." Puncec has been in Cairo since last February. He was a partisan during the war, but when Marshal Tito came into power he was arrested and later freed. "I was freed because they wanted me as a tennis player. It is good propaganda. They sent me to Czechoslovakia and France with the Yugosiav team, but even then we were under the constant watch oi' a commissar. I was asked in London to work as a stool pigeon to spy on my team mates."
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 October 1947, Page 5
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