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...their arms without fear of recrimination (they would be free to leave Greece or stay under police protection). New elections should be held under international surveillance. As concessions, Tsaldaris offered a wide amnesty to political oppositionists, and customs-free zones in the Aegean port of Salonika to Yugoslavia and Bulgaria...
Said Senator Robert Taft: "We can hardly longer reasonably object to the Russians continuing their domination in Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Rumania. The loans, therefore, accept the policy of dividing the world into zones of political influence. Perhaps," the Senator added, "there is no other course...
...Because Bulgaria was a poor guesser, and lined up with Germany in two world wars, it has become more of a Russian springboard than a crossroads. Last week Great Britain tacitly acknowledged Bulgaria's new alignment: London recognized (although Washington did not) the Communist-dominated government of oldtime Comintern Boss Georgi Dimitrov...
Although the Red Army was preparing to leave Bulgaria soon, Moscow was not taking chances on any bad Bulgarian guessing in the future. Thirty thousand Russian settlers had already moved into Bulgaria, and more were on the way. Eventually, the largest group would settle in the Dobruja area, along Bulgaria's Black Sea coast-shortest land corridor from the U.S.S.R. to the Dardanelles...
Once over the transportation barrier, tourists would run into other troubles. They could not go to Russia, Rumania, Bulgaria or Hungary. Elsewhere in Europe, food and hotel rooms were none too plentiful, many a currency was so unstable as to make the value of U.S. dollars unpredictable. Best travel bets: the British Isles, Switzerland, Scandinavia, France, the Low Countries...