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...with the Moscow purge trials of 1936-38 had not yet been solved. In spite of a thousand explanations, the free world still had little clue as to how Stalin's agents broke or bent the wills of their own comrades, of Mindszenty-and now those of the Bulgarian Protestant pastors. All confessed to what was certainly not true...
Some of the information allegedly passed on by him could not be classed, even by the wildest stretch of the imagination, as constituting espionage, e.g., reports on whether the Bulgarians were carrying out their armistice terms, and the scarcely sensational news that "Bulgarian economic life was stagnant...
Black last week denied Ivanov's whole story. Actually all charges of espionage against Bulgarian Protestant churchmen are patently phony. As pastors of minority churches they have long been under surveillance. Said one U.S. diplomat who knows Bulgaria well: "The Protestant clergy has never been on the inside. To say that it could know about what is going on inside the government is about as ridiculous as saying that the ministers of small churches in the Washington suburbs would be effective espionage agents...
...same time, the Bulgarian press began to publish the "confessions" of the 15 Protestant leaders indicted for treason. Methodist Yanko Ivanov was said to have admitted giving the U.S. information "on Russian troop movements in Bulgaria." Congregationalist Vassil Ziapkov was quoted: "We betrayed our Motherland, we revealed her secrets before enemies...
...Europe last summer, General Manager Edward Johnson* thought he had found the right singer: magenta-mopped Bulgarian Soprano Ljuba Welitsch, of the Vienna State Opera. Last spring, when pudgy little Fritz Reiner left the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in a huff, Johnson knew he could get the right conductor, too. Even 84-year-old Composer Strauss agreed with that. From Montreux, Switzerland, he wrote to Reiner, who had first conducted Salome under his stern gaze in Dresden 33 years ago: "That is good news. There are plenty of others who can do Brahms and Bruckner. Opera needs men like...