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...debates on the Balkans have become as formalized as a ritual dance. Almost every non-Communist delegate considers the fact of Albanian and Bulgarian aid to the Greek guerrillas to be as fully proven as the law of gravity. Yet Soviet-bloc delegates insist blandly that it isn't so. At Lake Success last week, after weeks of tedious arguments, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky added a new twist to the choreography. He agreed that the rebels had received arms-but, he said, with a straight face, the arms had come from unnamed groups in France, Italy and Turkey...
...Instead of answering, the Albanian representative attacked the Greek government, saying that it cherished "mad" territorial designs on his country and that it had committed no less than 1,565 "armed provocations." Some of them, he added solemnly, were led by U.S. General James Van Fleet. Furthermore, said the Bulgarian spokesman, UNSCOB was a hand-picked group coached by the Greek "monarcho-fascists...
...post-blockade days, not quite so many Germans had "disappeared." The curfew for the Soviet sector had been set back from 11 p.m. to midnight. Hungarian melons, Bulgarian grapes, Polish cranberries appeared in the markets...
...weeks of his life, the burly Bulgarian commanded the free world's admiration. In 1933, two tyrannies faced each other in a Berlin courtroom - Naziism represented by a fat bully, Hermann Göring, Communism by an obscure, curly-maned agitator named Georgi Dimitrov. In this instance, the Communist was the hero, accused of complicity in the setting of the Reichstag fire which, by then, everyone suspected Hermann Göring had set himself. Dimitrov, acting as his own attorney, alone in a hostile courtroom and a hostile country, fought Göring with courage. "I am not here...
...Condon hit the ceiling; Mrs. Condon had given Kent a Bulgarian's address, but there was no showing that the Bulgarian was a Soviet agent. The FBI, he cried, was a "stupid" outfit whose report had been based on "false and malicious" information. "Who attacks my wife," he announced, "must take me on. Mr. J. Edgar Hoover owes her a personal apology. I hope he is man enough to deliver...