Status Updates From Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

West writes of Bishop Strossmayer of the Roman Catholic Church - and a pro-Croat - 'We regard him with suspicion, we look for the snake beneath the flower. All of us know what it is to be moon-struck by charmers and to misinterpret their charm as a promise... and all of us have found later that that charm made no promise and meant nothing, absolutely nothing. Hence the biographies of charmers...

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Author and her husband discuss just how Serbian some things meant for the entirety of Yugoslavia are crafted. She expresses disgust over wreaths at the Mestrovitch monument delivered from fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Rightfully so, since she identifies they will use Yugoslavians as pawns.