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...Molotov Plan. Nine nations-the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland and Albania-had declined invitations to the conference. It was a hard decision for the trade-hungry Czechs; their Communist Premier Klement Gottwald had flown to Moscow, telephoned to the Cabinet at Prague the night the decision was made. "What else could we do?" said a non-Communist official in Prague. For being good, the Czechs got another Russian treaty and a promise of 200,000 tons of wheat...
...confused with his old enemy, Georgi Dimitroff, top Communist of Bulgaria...
Last week, when U.S. Delegate Warren Austin warned that in Bulgaria, Albania and Yugoslavia U.N. might need force to pursue its investigation of Greek border violations, it was painfully apparent that U.N. had no force to use; the international police force was still not in being. So long as Russia insisted that it should be made up of equal contributions of troops from each of the Big Five, it was not likely to come into being; under the Soviet plan the U.S., Russian and British shares could be no larger than China...
...from Lake Success, another Soviet-trained theoretician-Bulgaria's heavy-lidded Communist Boss Georgi Dimitrov -explained how this doctrine worked in applied Bulgarian politics. Said Dimitrov (in a busy week in which his government ousted 23 more opposition deputies): "We will have peace and tranquillity for creative labor. Whoever stands in our way . . . will go behind bars...
...Bulgaria (see above) and elsewhere, there might be tranquillity of a sort, even behind iron bars. But did much of the world want to be calm on such terms? In the free world, many men, trying to get the issues straight in their minds, were attempting definitions. None put the strength of the free world's case better than did U.S. Statesman & Churchman John Foster Dulles this week, in a speech at Northwestern University. Said Dulles: [The quest for peace] "requires that the moral issue be clarified. That issue is not the issue of economic communism against capitalism...