Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshal Tito, firming up his truculent stand against Moscow, spoke bluntly last week to army officers guarding Yugoslavia's border region of Macedonia, where Cominform agents are making plenty of trouble for Tito's regime. His words were really directed across the frontier at Bulgaria, and at Russia beyond...
Earlier in the week Tito had incited the peoples of Bulgaria and Albania against their Cominform rulers. "I think the time will come when we will help them to remove all obstacles which individuals have placed in the way of our fraternal relations." Thirteen months after Tito had been denounced by Moscow's Cominform as a Trotskyite traitor, he was still going strong. Western observers were beginning to believe that Stalin could not afford much longer to ignore Tito's dare...
...became a Communist, spent years in jail for his revolutionary activities. Forced to flee Bulgaria in 1923, he first went to Vienna, later to Berlin. After the Reichstag trial, he became a Soviet citizen. As chief of the Comintern (1935-43), he propounded the Popular Front policy with extreme candor. "Comrades," he told the Comintern's 7th World Congress, "you recall the old legend of the Conquest of Troy . . . We revolutionaries should use the same strategy...
Soft Music. The hero of the Reichstag trial was ailing and growing old. On public occasions he rouged his cheeks to appear younger. Last April, he left his job as Premier of Bulgaria, went to Russia to "rest." There were the usual rumors of liquidation, but he seemed to be really ill. Last week, Moscow announced that he had died of diabetes in a sanitarium near the Russian capital. The body lay in state in Moscow; the Russian radio added that music played softly while "thousands & thousands of the working people" filed past Dimitrov's casket...
Died. Georgi Dimitrov, 67, Premier of Bulgaria and Moscow's No. 1 satellite henchman; of diabetic complications; in a sanitarium near Moscow (see INTERNATIONAL...