Word: bulgaria
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...once been a Communist fellow traveler. He had tried film producing and gone bankrupt for more than $20,000. He had got 70 traffic convictions and been disqualified from driving for five years. He had been prevented from marrying an actress, Una Wing, in Chelsea, Paris, Russia, Bulgaria and Latvia. Then he had married her in Greece. He had been arrested in Paris on an extradition order by Greek police for passing phony checks...
Once he climbed into the bombardier's seat of a big R.A.F. plane. Over Nazi supply trains at Sofia, Bulgaria he let a stick of bombs go. Nick's dark eyebrows still twitched with excitement when he got back to Greece. "The train went up with a tremendous smash," he said...
...Yugoslav People's Army (Partisans), under onetime Spanish Republican Leader Kosta Naditch, continued an offensive hopefully timed to relieve pressure on Russia. Other Communist-led Partisan groups operated in a belt running intermittently from near the Italian border through Montenegro and Southern Serbia. > In Plovdiv, Bulgaria, guerrillas or parachutists blew up an armament works, wrecking buildings, machines and stocks of rifle barrels...
...today see the sole hope for their country's future salvation in the creation of closer ties with Russia." The London Daily Herald's correspondent cabled from Istanbul: "If a Balkan front were to be opened up by the United Nations today . . . there would be revolution in Bulgaria tomorrow...
...Bulgaria underground organizations were stirring the pro-Russian peasantry to open revolt, to overthrow the regime and force King Boris to sign a pact with Russia...