Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Weller, '29, author and foreign correspondent from the Chicago Daily News, will discuss the political situation in Greece and Bulgaria Monday in the Adams House Lower Common Room at 7:45 o'clock...
...Bulgaria last week, three visiting U.S. Congressmen, Senator Carl Hatch, Democrat, and Representatives John Davis Lodge and Walter H. Judd, Republicans, decided to perform a simple act of reverence that would dramatically assert the traditions of Western civilization...
...police-ridden Sofia, the three Americans had to act surreptitiously. Quietly they bought a funeral wreath. They waited until shortly before they were due to leave Bulgaria by plane. Then they put the wreath in a jeep, headed for the airport, but turned off to a cemetery. On the fresh, unmarked grave of Nikola Petkoff, executed eight days before for his opposition to Bulgaria's Communist-dominated Government (TIME, Oct. 6), they laid the wreath. Each spoke a few words in memory "of one of the greatest democrats of all time...
...Communist brass who attended: Rumania's Ana Pauker; Yugoslavia's Vice Premier Edward Kardelj; Poland's Vice Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka and Minister of Industry Hilary Mine; Jacques Duclos, secretary of the French Communist Party; Italy's Luigi Longo and Eugenio Reale, and delegates from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary...
...Bulgaria last week the Communist-dominated Government silenced democratic opposition by hanging Nikola Petkoff after his conviction on trumped-up treason charges. Petkoff, leader of the democratic Agrarian Party, was a patriot. He fought the Nazis and spent part of the war behind German barbed wire. After the Russians put the small Bulgarian Communist Party in power, Petkoff opposed the Communists led by the old Comintern agent, Georgi Dimitroff, hero of the Reichstag-fire trial...