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Russian proposals for a treaty with Finland had easy sailing. So had their peace terms for Hungary-until the U.S. and Britain discovered that Russia had signed a trade treaty under which the U.S.S.R. might monopolize half of Hungary's trade. Rumania and Bulgaria were still tougher cases. Secretary Byrnes submitted treaty drafts insisting upon democratic processes in both countries. After skillful maneuvering by Molotov, the Russian drafts were made the basis for study by the deputies...
...with Italy rapidly. Russia had a different attitude, which some de scribed as "vengeful." Kremlin policy is rarely dictated by emotion; it was more likely that the Soviet unwillingness to come to terms on an Italian treaty was intended to force the Council to agree on peace treaties for Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary...
Along Russia's borders from Poland to Bulgaria (see FOREIGN NEWS), the U.S. position evoked response. Even Czechoslovakia's Russophile Fierlinger discussed earnestly with Ernest Bevin concrete plans to divert some of his country's almost exclusively Russian trade down the Elbe toward Britain...
...official junket set an imposing Soviet seal on the Groza Government, just before the Council of Foreign Ministers was due to weigh its records in London (see INTERNATIONAL). But Rumania, like Bulgaria (see below), needed the imprimatur of the U.S. and Britain before it could get the peace treaty it sought. Not one but all of the Big Three were now acting tough. If Premier Groza had found light in the east, King Michael might also find it in the west...
...Georgieff started him on his enforced travels, was bound for Italy to rest up. Barnes was headed for London, to report to the Council of Foreign Ministers on the reluctantly postponed Bulgarian elections. Before he left Sofia, spunky, outspoken Maynard Barnes spent two luminous hours talking to Tsola Dragoitcheva, Bulgaria's top woman Communist and top Fatherland Front boss. In brightly lit words he made it clear that the U.S. and Britain would not recognize the new Government unless they were satisfied there would be a free election...