It began in Zagreb in 1937, when a group of student friends suggested that I write for the Yugoslav press a series of articles on the position of Moslem women. The students were bitter about the “enslavement” of their sisters who had been married in traditional manner. I was not very enthusiastic about attacking the women’s veil or the lattice window, but I was willing to study and report on Bosnian family life. It was the end of the spring-summer term, and we drew up a questionnaire which the students took home with them during their summer vacation. It was to be a small research effort into the domestic way of life of the Bosnian Moslem. [...]
1. Report by the Belgrade City Administration about improper conduct of junior civil servants (1901) Belgrade, 2 September 1901 Belgrade City Administration to the Head of the Quarter Confidential Sir: It came to my attention, and I have noticed the same to some extent myself, that junior civil servants of certain Quarters and Sections do not come to office on time and leave it before the end of office hours, are often absent from duty under various unjustified and sometimes false excuses [...]