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...Executed the democratic opposition leader in Bulgaria...
Then the Times's Bill Lawrence wrote that Dimitrov's congress made Bulgaria "a one-party state today, her internal and foreign policies openly modeled on and wedded to the Soviet Union." That was too much for the Bulgarians' experiment with freedom of the press. They rolled up the red carpet and clanged down the portcullis...
Bill Lawrence was ordered to leave Bulgaria within 24 hours (he planned to leave anyway) on the charge that he had not registered with the militia. The other correspondents were hustled back to Berlin. Before they left, a Czech Communist reporter wistfully asked a U.S. newsman: "What have you heard from the outside world...
...being squeezed dry by the Soviet Union, and that they face a possible deterioration--and soon--as the direct result of being yanked out of their normal and necessary trade relations with the West. And Professor Elliott said he was happy that the Communists were running things in Bulgaria, Romania, etc.... because they'd be blamed for it, and rightly...
Both, with the silent assent of Rumania's hard-driving Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker, had been talking up a federation composed of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Poland (TIME, Jan. 26). Quilted into a single state, it would comprise 447,000 square miles with 81 million people. It had growing armies, resources of coal, oil, and some highly developed industry. In the absence of a strong Germany, it would be Europe's most formidable power outside Russia. And it was perched on Russia's doorstep...