Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WEST GERMANY, encouraged by the success of a $40 million trade compact signed with Red Bulgaria, announced "direct consultations" with the Kremlin; Ruhr manufacturers dreamed of the good old days when Hitler's Drang nach Osten sent 12% of all German exports off to the East...
GREECE was getting ready to swap tobacco for Polish coal; ITALY could not resist Bulgaria's bid for lemons. JAPAN industrialists, noting that U.S. coal and iron ore costs them more than twice as much as the nearer but unavailable supplies ofo the Red mainland, bluntly say: "There is no hope for the Japanese economy until trade can be resumed with China...
...Bulgaria wanted vegetable oils; the U.S. has just imposed a stiff import quota on tung oil after spending thousands to teach the Paraguayans how to grow it for the U.S. market...
...sooner the better." ¶ The question-mark barrage. After listening to Adolf Hitler grandiloquizing about "spheres of influence," Molotov silenced him by asking all at once: "What's this about a new order in Europe? And in Asia? What role is the U.S.S.R. going to play? What about Bulgaria? Rumania? Turkey? How shall Russian interests be preserved in the Balkans?" ¶ The dialectical pounce. At the Potsdam Conference, a concrete issue of fact arose between Molotov and Britain's Anthony Eden. Politely, Eden began: "I may be mistaken, but . . ." Before he could finish the sentence, Molotov broke...
Among the satellite nations, Poland and then Bulgaria are considered the most discontented-but neither has a border on the West. Then come the Czechs and the Albanians. Restless as they are, they are under control of the army and the police, and the army and the police are under control of men who are unlikely Titos...