Word: bulgarians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Togliatti firmly, as many in the hushed house recalled the Bulgarian executed by the Communists last year. "We are speaking of Petkoff. Pay attention and don't interrupt...
...delegates came to Paris from twelve European nations that are getting aid from the U.N.'s International Children's Emergency Fund (an UNRRA successor), which is helping feed 4,000,000 children, pregnant women and nursing mothers. The anti-Communist Italian delegate interpreted for the Bulgarian comrade. On the Fund's staff are men of 13 nationalities; the director is an American; his deputy is from Tito's Yugoslavia...
They were telling a story in Europe this week. In a Bulgarian classroom, a Communist teacher asked her hungry pupils to recite the Lord's Prayer. When they had finished, they were still hungry. Then the teacher led them in a new prayer which began "Our Father Stalin. . . ." Suddenly, through a hole in the ceiling, straight from the Marxist heaven, tumbled loaf after loaf of bread...
...correspondents in Berlin, the invitation was an eye-popper. The Soviet-dominated Bulgarian government, which has shown little liking for U.S. newsmen, politely invited them to cover Premier Georgi Dimitrov's big Fatherland Front Congress in Sofia. The terms sounded too good to be true: there would be no censorship; the correspondents could go where they pleased, stay as long as they liked, and English-speaking Sofia newsmen would serve as interpreters...
...when a LIFE photographer took a picture on a Sofia street, he was arrested-and then released with an embarrassed apology from the Foreign Office. On a side trip to the Pernik coal mines, the Bulgarian general in charge succumbed to habit; he wagged a forbidding finger when the first American camera appeared...