Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall said, would now place on the Assembly's agenda "the threat to the integrity of Greece." A Security Council commission and its subsidiary group, "by large majorities," had laid Greece's troubles chiefly to "the illegal assistance and support furnished by Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria to guerrilla forces ... a hostile and aggressive...
...Council to deal with the situation. This Assembly cannot stand by as a mere spectator while a member of the United Nations is endangered by attacks. "The United States delegation will, therefore, submit to the Assembly a resolution which will contain a finding of responsibility; call upon Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia to cease and desist from rendering further assistance or support to the guerrillas in Greece." The resolution would establish a commission "to make appropriate recommendations to the states concerned...
...five treaties finally went into effect, and U.S. troops were getting ready to pull out of Italy, Palmiro Togliatti's Communists were talking revolution; Tito's Yugoslav troops were bulging into Trieste and menacingly taking stations along the new Yugoslav-Italian frontier. In Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria, Communist-backed minorities had matters firmly under control. Finland was tied to the Russian economic and security bloc. France was infiltrated with Communist power. China was gripped by civil war. Persia and Turkey lived precariously in the shadow of the Communist ax. Greece was directly threatened...
...harried Theodore Atanasoff, Bulgarian trade representative, it seemed like a good idea at the time. His trade mission had been sent to Germany last July to buy automobiles, spare parts, shoemaking machines, airplane tires and numerous other articles difficult to acquire in Bulgaria. Not having any dollars for these purposes, but having access to a considerable quantity of fairly good Bulgarian-made cigarets, Atanasoff and his associates decided to bypass the import-export authorities, and deal "directly" on a "practical" basis. Why not? Theirs was not an official military mission such as the Dutch or Swiss had accredited...
...that he is back in the U.S., white-haired Dr. Dodge hopes to make more Americans conscious of the importance of maintaining the seven Near East colleges as outposts of American influence and democratic attitudes.* The American College at Sofia, Bulgaria, has already succumbed; it was closed by the Nazis, and the Russians have not let it reopen...