Former Tribune editor Bob Edwards was reminiscing with colleagues from the magazine and his Fleet Street days as editor of the Sunday Mirror at a gathering in London when the current editor recalled the time he had been arrested as a spy for attempting to take photographs of the main station in Belgrade, then the capital of Tito’s Soviet-satellite Yugoslavia. Under the semi-totalitarian regime of the “non-aligned” country, the station was deemed a site of strategic military importance. A similar thing had happened to the current editor. As they mulled over this coincidence, Bob said: “The irony is that you’d get done for that in this country now.” The difference is that, in this country, it would not have to be a designated military site, as Belgrade station genuinely was.
