Sia,—I should not dream of entering into a dis- cussion
about the Yugoslav broadcasts of the BBC had you not, in your last article, drawn my name into this somewhat unsavoury business. I am not concerned with your opinions; I should like only to point out some of the most blatant untruths.
1. On at least three occasions I asked the BBC for one or two of their people to come to work with the English service of Belgrade Radio. Unfortunately, they were unable to find among their staff someone with sufficient knowledge of Serbo-Croatian who was willing to move to Belgrade for at least three years. Consequently, we had to engage some people from outside the BBC.
2. My contract with the BBC was for three years.
I left the BBC, however, after only fourteen months, staying in London for another three years and a few months as a full-time correspondent and repre- sentative of the Yugoslav Radio. It would have been rather strange for me to do that had I joined the BBC for the reasons you are trying, in a very un- pleasant manner, to imply. Incidentally, there was no need for you to go to such trouble in order to dis- cover my personal opinions: I never kept them a secret.
3. I freely confess that it was I ivho was against 'informing' Yugoslavia through the BBC about the death of Dr. Velimirovic. I had at least one good reason for that: I had heard that same 'forbidden' news from Belgrade Radio earlier that afternoon; it was published in Politika and other newspapers in Yugoslavia. This is not difficult to prove: these are the facts.--Yours faithfully.
ROZIDAR BOZOV IC
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