The second group of greeters was made up of Serbian new Americans. former displaced persons. They prepared a special reception for him at the hotel where he was staying to make certain that he would be properly identified as the representative of a Communist dictator. When Popovic was asked what he thought about the Croatian Anlerican and Serbian American protests about his visit to Cleveland. he said: The Serbs were what we would have called quislings in Yugoslavia. and the Croats were political emigrants of 35 years ago. They do not know what is going on. Is that not a strange state of affairs wherein a Communist Ambassador to the United States can visit one of our great cities. accept its hospitality. and then climax his visit by attacking the character and patriotism of loyal. freedomloving Americans in the community?
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Accusation of being Communist sympathizers and disloyal to the US.