Word: bulgaria
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...Czechoslovakia on Paraguayan passports, wealthy Alfred K. Stern, 59, and his wife Martha Dodd Stern, 48, let a Prague press conference know they were in no hurry to return to the U.S. and explain their activities as professional Communist spies, announced that they would soon visit East Germany, Bulgaria, Communist China. Safe (so far) behind the Iron Curtain, the daughter of onetime (1933-37) U.S. Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd, once famed for painting the town red at home and abroad, painted a picture of her own country with the same color, declared that "all progressive people...
Avery Brundage, the U.S.'s terrible-tempered dean of athletic amateurism, wants to go to Bulgaria next September because the International Olympic Committee is meeting there, and he is president of the committee. The State Department turned down his request for passport validation on the ground that the U.S. has no diplomatic relations with that satellite. No man to allow international politics to take precedence over the higher imperatives of sport, Brundage fired his ire to newsmen: "Just imagine the blow to U.S. Olympic prestige! Why, if the president of the International Committee is unable to attend an important...
Catherine's Glynnese was often far less daundering than her normal English. Her description of William's reaction to the Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria is a case in point: "A pamphlet nearly written he has been boiling over at the horrors and at the conduct of the Government very proud that England's voice is speaking its great heart throbbing and in this pumped-out moment with no backing it speaks...
...conclave, those loyal East German boys, Premier Grotewohl and First Party Secretary Ulbricht, were rewarded with a treaty giving them the right to know how many Soviet divisions were stationed on their soil. The lesser fry-Bulgaria's Zhivkov, Rumania's Gheorghiu-Dej, Czechoslovakia's Novotny and even little Kadar from Hungary-got encouraging pats on the back. There were vast banquets at the Kremlin, a huge amount of congratulatory speechmaking and communiques galore...
...products-needed by the other satellites. Lack of Hungarian bauxite and processed aluminum is slowly forcing East Germany's young aircraft industry to a halt. Hungary may have to lay off more than 200,000 workers in the next few months, and unemployment is a major problem in Bulgaria. The breakdown of Hungary's vitally located railroad system has prevented the normal flow of Rumanian oil to Poland, forcing the Poles to ration oil and gas. And poor harvests in Rumania, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria have cruelly pinched already inadequate food production; East Germany, which had hoped...