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Spokesmen for Albania and Bulgaria had been invited to answer amply documented charges made by UNSCOB (U.N.'s Special Committee on the Balkans). Instead of answering, the Albanian representative attacked the Greek government, saying that it cherished "mad" territorial designs on his country and that it had committed no less than 1,565 "armed provocations." Some of them, he added solemnly, were led by U.S. General James Van Fleet. Furthermore, said the Bulgarian spokesman, UNSCOB was a hand-picked group coached by the Greek "monarcho-fascists...
...When are you Americans going to stop the Russians?" No country in the West so deeply hates and fears the Russians. Turkey lives in a state of siege. Russian propagandists have been claiming Turkey's eastern provinces for the Soviet motherland. Radio Sofia purrs the happy lot of Bulgaria's Turkish minority; Radio Azerbaijan calls on all Kurds, including Turkey's, to revolt...
Cement pillboxes dot the rolling plains of Thrace; piles of stone lie by the roadsides for emergency roadblocks. From the border of Bulgaria in the west to Ararat in the east, Turkish riflemen stand guard. Almost half a million men are in the armed forces-a staggering burden for a poor country of 19 million people. Defense takes 40% of Turkey's budget...
...Iron Curtain between Yugoslavia and the Soviet East zipped up tighter yesterday when Rumania announced she too had severed friendship treaties with Tito's country. The formal isolation of Yugoslavia from the East completes except for Czechoslovakia the moves of Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary, who followed the lead of Russia...
Czech and Rumanian working brigades have traveled to assignments in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, although it is doubtful whether groups are still being dispatched to Yugoslavia, in view of the strained relations between that country and other Eastern European nations...