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...incidents" came after a flow of recent reports that Bulgaria is building up troop concentrations on its Yugoslav border. At week's end, the Moscow radio accused Tito of "playing Syngman Rhee's role." Whether and when Moscow would try to inflict Syngman Rhee's fate on Tito was the Kremlin's secret...
Tito's Yugoslavia last week accused Stalin's Bulgaria of sending armed patrols across the frontier three times in one day. Shots were exchanged and a Bulgarian soldier was killed on Yugoslav territory...
...Soviet vetoes have blocked nine states: Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Korea, Nepal, Portugal. Five Soviet satellite states-Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Outer Mongolia, Rumania-have failed to win a majority but the democratic nations have used no veto to bar them from membership...
While Czechoslovakia seems to be working with clumsy stealth toward a purge of all non-Communist correspondents, Bulgaria openly bars all Western newsmen. Rumania is still tighter; it does not even admit Communist reporters from Hungary. No Western correspondents are welcome in Soviet-occupied Eastern Germany either, except on special occasions. To get news from the Soviet zone, the Western newsmen are forced to rely on 1) Soviet-controlled German newspapers, 2) the Soviet-licensed German news agency, 3) clandestine sources. Knowing this, the propaganda-wise Russians sometimes plant phony stories, wait until Western newsmen swallow the Soviet bait, then...
Bald, pale Mario Scelba, Italy's tough Minister of the Interior, had studied a Cominform directive found by his police on a Red courier en route to France from Bulgaria. Scelba was convinced that French and Italian Communists were under orders to launch a spring offensive. One day last week he warned his fellow ministers: "We are in an emergency." He asked and received extraordinary power to keep public order, including reinforcements for the police and a ban on all public and factory meetings...