Word: bulgaria
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...Bulgaria's Riviera, the season had been rather dazzling. At Varna, most fashionable of the Black Sea resorts, the crowning event was a bathing-beauty contest. A happy photograph of the winner and runners-up reached the U.S. last week...
...same sunny mood seemed to envelop the framers of Bulgaria's new Constitution, which abolished the death penalty. This was good news for Bulgaria, for Russia and for Nikola Petkoff, secretary of Bulgaria's Agrarian Party, whom the Bulgarian Government recently condemned to death for treason...
Petkoff's "treason" consisted of his outspoken stand against Bulgaria's Communist-dominated regime. When the U.S. protested against his sentence, both Bulgaria and Russia replied that it was "a pure Bulgarian home question." Nevertheless, Bulgaria, which had just concluded a peace treaty with the Allies, would like to be admitted to the U.N., and the Petkoff sentence stood in the way. If the National Assembly ratified the Constitution (as it was sure to), Bulgaria would no longer be obliged to execute Petkoff, and the U.S. would have no talking point. Best of all, since Petkoff...
Youth Railway. A proclamation explained that the marchers were members of the Greek labor brigade Yanis Zavgos, which "had come from Yugoslavia to help Bulgarian youth build a new Bulgaria into a bulwark against international imperialism." Ostensibly they were going to work on the new Youth Railway now under construction in the Struma Valley, which leads down to Salonika. But the Government reception for the brigadiers, which was attended by members of the Bulgarian Cabinet, was equivalent to unofficial recognition of the Markos regime...
...Security Council Membership Committee was considering applications for admission by Eire, Portugal, Trans-Jordan, Italy and Austria (Russia was prepared to blackball all of them) and Albania, Outer Mongolia, Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria (which would run into U.S. opposition). The only prospective member nobody wanted to sandbag was Yemen...