Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reported Purged: Petru Groza, Premier of Communist Rumania, and Vulko Chervenkov, Premier of Communist Bulgaria. New York Times gadabout Correspondent C. L. Sulzberger heard last week that both had been relieved of all their executive functions. Groza, never more than a stooge for the Communists, has been assailed for months past as a "deviationist" by Ana Pauker's ruling faction in the party. Chervenkov, a party member since 1919 and brother-in-law of Red Hero Georgi Dimitrov, seemed to have a more secure position...
...Hungary, Rumania, Poland, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia, only three
...China will... become the Poland of Asia, Korea the Asiatic Rumania and Manchoukuo the Soviet Bulgaria...
Died. Stephen Bonsal, 86, author, diplomat, and in his time, one of the world's top foreign correspondents; after long illness; in Washington, D.C. At 20, he was in the Balkans covering the war between Bulgaria and Serbia for the New York Herald, from then on made the world his beat. Between 1889 and 1911, he chronicled wars and skirmishes in Morocco, Macedonia, Manchuria, Cuba, the Philippines, Venezuela, Russia (the 1907 revolution), Mexico. As a lieutenant colonel, Bonsal served as President Wilson's interpreter at Versailles, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Unfinished Business, his incisive footnotes...
...outsider can get of Albania today, but from the stories that drift across the frontier, it is possible to piece together a more accurate picture. Albania is the only satellite state which is not joined geographically to the Soviet family. Tito's Yugoslavia separates Albania from Communist Bulgaria and the other Russian satellites. This makes it hard for Russia to run the country, and the Russians do their best to keep Albania from any unsettling contact with the free world that might make it even harder to keep the country in line. Each month an Italian ship brings mail...