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dated July 5, 1955: Nehru tours Yugoslavia

President Tito on July 3 showed Prime Minister Nehru some of Yugoslavia's main industrial achievements since the war in the strategically protected mountain fastness of Bosnia. First they inspected Yugoslavia's main iron and steel centre at Zenica. In the afternoon, they visited the Jablanica hydro-electric power station, which is to be the country's biggest source of electric power. Mr. Nehru and President Tito were accompanied by Mrs. Tito and Mrs. Indira Gandhi. They travelled overnight from Belgrade in the Presidential blue train to Zenica and then to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. From Sarajevo they set off by car to Jablanica and the mediaeval walled city of Dubrovnik in the Southern Adriatic where they spent the night. All along the route, villagers and workers turned out to cheer them, waiving Yugoslav and Indian flags. In Sarajevo, a crowd of many thousands threw flowers as they drove through the streets, passing the points where a Bosnian patriot assassinated the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand in 1914, precipitating World War 1. On a mountain pass halfway between Sarajevo and Jablanica, Mr. Nehru and President Tito got out of the car and planted by the roadside two trees as a mark of Indo-Yugoslav friendship.

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