Word: bulgaria
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...down from the roof of Sofia's grandiose Hôtel Bulgarie, and armored cars toured the streets below. In the hotel's plush lobbies and corridors, swarthy Albanian colonels conferred importantly with bemedaled Czech generals; Polish officials huddled with thoughtful Hungarians. Vulko Chervenkov, new boss of Bulgaria, walked side by side with Ana Pauker, Stalin's Amazon satrap for Rumania. Over all watched the steady eyes of the Russians sent for the occasion from Moscow. The Cominform was meeting in full conclave. Chief item on the agenda: what to do about Yugoslavia's rebellious Tito...
While the Cominform sat, all the Balkans were abuzz with ominous rumor and foreboding fact. U.S. newsmen in Belgrade reported three mechanized Soviet divisions moving westward through Hungary and Rumania. Borba, the official voice of Belgrade, charged that Rumania was inciting Communists in Hungary, Albania and Bulgaria to join in carving up their larger neighbor with Russian help. Three recent train wrecks in Yugoslavia prompted Railways Minister Todor Vujacinovic last week to warn against impending Cominform sabotage. Two days later, fires broke out simultaneously in four parts of Yugoslavia's huge Romsa oil refinery in Fiume. A Russian warship...
...high-pitched controversy about Yugoslavia's territorial demands on Austrian Carinthia, which Russia first backed, then repudiated (TIME, June 27). Europe's rumor factories at once produced pertinent whispers: a Soviet airlift across Yugoslavia was reinforcing isolated little Albania"; Marshal Ivan S. Konev was in Bulgaria warming up a Cominform army...
Marshal Tito, firming up his truculent stand against Moscow, spoke bluntly last week to army officers guarding Yugoslavia's border region of Macedonia, where Cominform agents are making plenty of trouble for Tito's regime. His words were really directed across the frontier at Bulgaria, and at Russia beyond...
Earlier in the week Tito had incited the peoples of Bulgaria and Albania against their Cominform rulers. "I think the time will come when we will help them to remove all obstacles which individuals have placed in the way of our fraternal relations." Thirteen months after Tito had been denounced by Moscow's Cominform as a Trotskyite traitor, he was still going strong. Western observers were beginning to believe that Stalin could not afford much longer to ignore Tito's dare...