Word: bulgarians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although the Red Army was preparing to leave Bulgaria soon, Moscow was not taking chances on any bad Bulgarian guessing in the future. Thirty thousand Russian settlers had already moved into Bulgaria, and more were on the way. Eventually, the largest group would settle in the Dobruja area, along Bulgaria's Black Sea coast-shortest land corridor from the U.S.S.R. to the Dardanelles...
This gruesome novel of human beastliness was one of the last (and most appropriate) to be published in Vienna before the Anschluss. Last year, it appeared in translation in England (where Bulgarian-born Author Canetti now lives) and set the critics ablaze pro & con. "Mere Central-European portentousness . . . at once heavy and trivial. . . . A terrific and inconsequent to-do about trifles,"harrumphed the dignified London Times Literary Supplement. "Appalling, magnificent," exclaimed the Spectator, "screams and bellows of evil out of which [a] supremely mad, unfaceable book is orchestrated . . . of which we dare not deny the genius...
...stuffy ballroom of dingy Manhattan Center, they cheered their heroes (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, Claude Pepper) and hissed their villains (President Truman, James F. Byrnes, "U.S. imperialism"). Later, in Madison Square Garden, they gave a standing ovation to personal messages 'from Generalissimo Stalin, Marshal Tito, and Bulgarian Communist Georgi Dimitroff. They roared approval of Russia, UNRRA aid, Yugoslav claims to Trieste...
...Ukraine; General Vassily Kozlov, World War II guerrilla hero; Lieut. General Alexander Gundorov, head of the All-Slav Congress in Moscow; General Karol Swierczewski, Poland's Vice Minister of National Defense; Tzola Dragoïtcheva, Secretary of Bulgaria's Fatherland Front and No. 1 hatchet woman of Bulgarian Communism. The Yugoslav delegates, who attempted to attend the congress as private citizens, were barred as Communists by U.S. immigration authorities. All other foreign delegates came as diplomatic representatives of their governments...
...That!" For one thing, it was hard to pin down the Russian bloc. When the Western majority moved to consider Greek claims in the Bulgarian Political and Territorial Commission, Chairman Kuzma V. Kisselev of Byelorussia hastily adjourned the session and rose to leave the room. "You can't do that!" cried Australia's Colonel William R. Hodgson. "You are a servant of this Commission." Kisselev kept going, was dutifully followed by the delegates from Russia, the Ukraine, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. The Western quorum stayed to pass a vote of censure. This week Russia abandoned its attempt to give...