Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fugitive was Dr. Georgi M. Dimitroff,* pro-Allied ex-Secretary General of the democratic Agrarian Party. He was seeking sanctuary from his Russian-controlled Government, which was trying to arrest him on unspecified charges. In Moscow last week the Russian Government urged the U.S. to hand over Dr. Dimitroff forthwith. In Washington Acting Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew replied that the matter was under discussion with the Bulgarian Premier and Foreign Minister, "who have not yet found a solution that would provide against Dr. Dimitroff becoming a victim of violence...
Nevertheless, stern measures have been laid out. The latest plan for its control, "revised directive 1067," laid on President Truman's desk only ten days before war's end, followed closely the Morgenthau or "goat pasture" plan. Southern Germany would largely revert to agrarian economy. All industry capable of producing armaments (a broad definition) would be destroyed or transferred, the remainder controlled by the occupation forces. The educational system would be overhauled...
...Kosice, which will be Czechoslovakia's capital until Prague is liberated, Benes will stop in Moscow to discuss matters with Joseph Stalin. Most likely successor to Premier Monsignor Jan Sramek, of the Czech People's Catholic Party, will be Vavro Srobar, a Slovak and an agrarian leftist. Other ministerial portfolios will go to a national front coalition, including Socialists (Benes' party), Communists (No. 4 party in pre-Munich Czechoslovakia), Social Democrats. Czech People's Catholics, Small Farmers (a leftist group) and the Slovak National Council (Slovak resistance...
...jail for life, with confiscation of property and a fine of 3,000,000 leva ($36,000 at prewar rates), went Bulgaria's last war Premier, Konstantin Muravieff, Agrarian and liberal, who landed Bulgaria in a three-day war with Russia while trying to remain neutral. Forty-nine Deputies received jail terms...
...armed breach occurred without the knowledge, approval or consent of the ELD or any of its representatives. . . . Forcible seizure of power within the organization of EAM at the expense of ELD and other cooperating parties automatically severs every connecting link with EAM." Salonika representatives of ELD, SKE and the Agrarian Party (another EAM group) declared that the civil war had been caused "by the irreconcilable policy of the Communist Party." They warned that Bulgars and Yugoslavs had been fighting with the ELAS forces and that Greece might lose Macedonia or Thrace to Yugoslavia or Bulgaria...