Word: bulgarias
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...days later the results came in. Bulgaria suddenly decided to admit seven U.S. reporters who had been cooling their heels outside. Poland promised immediate entry to the three wire services, agreed to let in more newsmen later...
...bluntly told the Russian-backed Bulgarian Fatherland Front Government, in which Communists hold the strategic posts, that the U.S. is not satisfied that the Government is "adequately representative of" all of Bulgaria's democratic elements, or that the elections scheduled to be held this week will be "free from the fear of force and intimidation...
Jimmy Byrnes was thus carrying out to the letter the Big Three agreements reached at Yalta and Potsdam, which called for free and open elections in all of Europe's liberated countries and promised diplomatic recognition to governments set up through such elections. If Bulgaria does not comply, he said, the U.S. would refuse recognition. In effect, since Bulgaria is a Russian satellite, he was telling another of the Big Three to uphold its end of the Yalta-Potsdam bargain...
...Parliament, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin directly supported the U.S. stand on Bulgaria (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), indirectly answered Winston Churchill (see above...
Said Bevin: "The governments set up in Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary do not represent the views of the majority of the people" (all three countries are Russian-dominated). "The impression we get from recent developments is that one kind of totalitarianism is being replaced by another. That is not what we understand by that very much overworked word Democracy...