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Show Mickey Mouse Banished by Jugoslavia; U.S. Writer Reporting Ban Also Ousted tion by one-hslf in governmental salaries. Ths occasion provoked something some-thing of a precedent in journalism. journal-ism. Ths New York Times. In reporting the incident, printed a comic atrip for the first time. accurate way of Informing the press." (Turn to the remie page toe today's to-day's Mickey .Mouse adventure.) Included in the banned sequence se-quence of the strip was Mickey's program of reform, tax reduction, relief of the meases, paring of governmental expense and reduo- Mickey Mouse, that Irrepressible Irrepressi-ble sprite of the comic strip, has become an International incident While deep In his excursions Into the mysteries of government and politics, be has been banished from Jugoslavia. A creature of the Walt Disney Enterprises and appearing daily in The Telegram, Mickey, a perfect per-fect double for the young king of a mythical Medioka. is embroiled em-broiled in a plot to overthrow tha government. Mickey, be it said, being on ths side of law and order. The villain In the piece Is an uncle of the young king, the regent, re-gent, who inspires ths revolutionary revolution-ary plot. It was at this point In the comic strip series that Jugoslavia's Jugo-slavia's royal censor put the royal foot down and pronounced the Jugoslavian equivalent of "Scram, Mickey Mouse." Hubert Harrison, correspondent correspond-ent of the New York Times in Belgrade, Bel-grade, noted that the strip was banned at the point where revolution revo-lution entered the picture, and he was ordered to Join Mickey Mouse in exile. He waa told to leave be- 1 cause of "his tendentious and in- ' - i |