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...years, relations between the U.S. and Bulgaria had gone from merely chilly to bitterly cold. In Sofia, U.S. Minister Donald Heath was harassed and insulted by Bulgarian officials. They demanded his recall. When Washington protested, it got only smiling evasions from Bulgarian Chargé d'Affaires Peter Voutov in Washington, sullen silence from Sofia. Last week, his patience exhausted, Secretary of State Dean Acheson broke off diplomatic relations with Russia's Balkan satellite (which was a Nazi satellite before that...
Voutov was sent packing. Heath was ordered home. For good measure, the U.S. froze the dollar assets not only of Bulgaria but of two other little Red hens in the Soviet front yard-Rumania and Hungary...
...that Yugoslavia was run by the "kulaks." The fact is that there are 6,500 collective farms in Yugoslavia, supporting between 1,250,000 and 1,500,000 people who are working 4,353,900 acres, or 23% of the land under cul tivation. In Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, less than 10% of the land is collectivized...
...line is that he differs radically from Stalin because he believes in the equality of Communist states, whereas Stalin believes that a Communist state can be genuine only if dominated by Russia. The truth is that Tito would probably not hesitate to make satellites of Albania and Bulgaria, if he could apply superior power against them. What Tito has done is split the political atom - he has separated Communism and Soviet imperialism. But that does not mean that Soviet imperialists are not also Communists, nor that Yugoslav Communists are not also imperialists...
Died. Vasil Kolarov, 72, bald, bull-necked old Comintern handyman who in July 1949 succeeded Georgi Dimitrov as Premier of Bulgaria; after long illness...