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...Marshall said, would now place on the Assembly's agenda "the threat to the integrity of Greece." A Security Council commission and its subsidiary group, "by large majorities," had laid Greece's troubles chiefly to "the illegal assistance and support furnished by Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria to guerrilla forces ... a hostile and aggressive...
...Council to deal with the situation. This Assembly cannot stand by as a mere spectator while a member of the United Nations is endangered by attacks. "The United States delegation will, therefore, submit to the Assembly a resolution which will contain a finding of responsibility; call upon Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia to cease and desist from rendering further assistance or support to the guerrillas in Greece." The resolution would establish a commission "to make appropriate recommendations to the states concerned...
...five treaties finally went into effect, and U.S. troops were getting ready to pull out of Italy, Palmiro Togliatti's Communists were talking revolution; Tito's Yugoslav troops were bulging into Trieste and menacingly taking stations along the new Yugoslav-Italian frontier. In Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria, Communist-backed minorities had matters firmly under control. Finland was tied to the Russian economic and security bloc. France was infiltrated with Communist power. China was gripped by civil war. Persia and Turkey lived precariously in the shadow of the Communist ax. Greece was directly threatened...
Last Maneuver. If Bulgaria takes the lead in recognizing Markos, other Russian satellites will almost certainly follow. U.S. State and War Department observers in the Balkans were frankly worried over the prospect of the move. They believed that Markos' offer to down arms provided EAM ministers were taken into the Greek Government was probably the last political maneuver the Communists would make before stepping up guerrilla activities in Greece. Said one high-ranking U.S. Army officer: "Markos would probably be willing to settle for the Ministries of the Interior, Justice, War and Communications. But if we fall for that...
...convicted men were leaders of Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party. Wrote Warsaw's Communist paper, in a blood-chilling front-page editorial titled The Analogy: "In Bulgaria, the leader of reaction, Nikola Petkoff [see above] has been seated on the defendant's bench next to his subordinate, Ivanoff. In Cracow, Mierzwa [Mikolajczyk's subordinate in the Polish Peasant Party] is seated on the bench. Will the similarity of events end there...