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...traditional head at Berlin." The bureau is also responsible for news from Austria and Yugoslavia. Just as Berlin serves as the listening post for Poland and East Germany, so Vienna is the siphoning spot for information from Czechoslovakia and Hun gary. Belgrade has its sights fixed on Bulgaria and Rumania...
Forth from the Paris conference flew Picasso's dove, to breed wondrously. The dove was plastered on posters, stamped on ash trays and handkerchiefs, brooches and earrings. Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Poland and Russia put it on postage stamps. It was stamped on tickets to rallies in France and on banners to fly over the rallies; in Belgium, they made it out of spaghetti and macaroni for sale to peace-lovers. On U.S. automobiles in France, little dove stickers appeared, with the words "American, go home. We want peace...
Died. Petko Stoyanov, 71, second surviving member of Bulgaria's anti-Communist triumvirate, former cabinet minister (1944-47); of undisclosed causes; in a "People's Militia" prison in Sofia...
...Bulgaria. Yugoslav intelligence sources reported the arrest of 200 high officials of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Rather than yield to Communist requisition of their produce, many Bulgarian peasants are burning their crops and taking to the forests and mountains, where they form small armed bands. An estimated 40,000 Bulgarian peasants have been deported from the Yugoslav-Bulgarian border region to concentration camps, another 35,000 sent to prison, and 1,800 of more peasant families interned in their homes...
...rulers have given up their ideas of world conquest. . . They are putting themselves in the position where they can commit new acts of aggression at any time." Then he passed along a piece of intelligence: Rumania recently cleared a strip of land 30 miles deep along her Yugoslav border. "Bulgaria and Hungary have done the same thing. Military preparations have been going on in those zones along the border...