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Membership. Cordell Hull's beloved phrase, "peace-loving states," stayed in. Such nonmember neutrals as Sweden, Switzerland and Portugal, such former Axis satellites as Bulgaria and Rumania can come in only when the Security Council recommends their admission and the General Assembly approves. Members may be suspended but not expelled. Withdrawal is neither provided for nor for bidden (any member could resign from the League of Nations...
...morning last month a Bulgarian beat frantically on the door of the U.S. representative in Sofia. When the door opened, he fell inside with a grateful cry. This week he was still there, a diplomatic incubus and a living incitement to ask: what is going on in Russian-liberated Bulgaria...
...first time this year Bulgaria's firing squads had nothing to do. The People's Courts had run through their docket of war criminal trials. Score: 2,007 death sentences, 1,986 executions. (The 21 condemned persons who had not been shot could not be found.) Another 3,064 prisoners were jailed for terms from a year to life. Among them: famed Liberal Konstantin Muravieff...
Last week Tass, official Soviet news agency, reported that Peter Grozja, Russia's puppet Premier of Rumania, had called for the formation of a Soviet-sponsored league of Danubian states (presumably Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia...
...long as Soviet Russia is a one-party dictatorship, and Communist at that, the Republics cannot have truly independent policies, domestic or foreign. But Stalin may be leading them toward a vast federal sodality, with room for Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia in Europe, Manchuria and perhaps other lands in Asia. In such a union, any newcomers would want assurance that they could keep their international standing...