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...stopovers in Belgrade and Budapest, went to Sofia, where Bulgarian Communist Premier Georgi Dimitrov received him with an old Stalinesque gesture (see cut) and a new-found sartorial nattiness. This week, Dimitrov himself journeyed to Belgrade, where he conferred with Communist Premier-Marshal Tito. Said Dimitrov on his arrival: Bulgaria and Yugoslavia are linked in brotherhood. A pact of "friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance" between the two countries was "contemplated in the near future...
Faced with the first direct complaints of aggression in U.N. history, the Security Council could not reach a decision yesterday and will try again today to answer Australia's demand to stop war in Indonesia, and Greek "aggression" charges against Albania, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria. The Dutch, who, with American-made weapons, were gobbling up huge chunks of the Indonesian Republic yesterday, prevented a vote to stop hostilities by claiming that the U.N. charter "was not applicable...
...Next 30 Days. At the United Nations, the U.S. pressed hard for a border commission to keep an eye on Greece's boundaries with Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria during the next two years. Russia, hinting it might veto, managed to delay the U.S. proposal. Washington let it be known that the 2nd Marine Division and the 82nd Airborne Division in North Carolina were standing by. These two units should be enough to handle whatever forces General Markos Vafiades, the Communist guerrilla leader in northern Greece, had at his disposal...
...given a geography exam by Gallup pollsters, and flunked badly. Handed a map of Europe on which countries were outlined but not named, U.S. citizens were asked to tell which was which. The wife of an Illinois school superintendent thought that Germany was France, Austria was Yugoslavia, put Bulgaria in Hungary, Rumania in Czechoslovakia and Poland in Turkey. The average U.S. woman put only five out of twelve European countries in their proper places; the average man got six right. Only one in seven knew where Bulgaria belonged...
Sofia wired, with Bulgar bravado, that it could not be bothered with the continental recovery program because it had a more important matter in train, to wit: "[Bulgaria] has already begun the realization of her own economic plan...