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...always, the Soviet connection. Obviously, Russia would not particularly care to have her little friend in the Balkans pass like Rumania into German hands. One day last week an unknown young Russian diplomat, Alexander Mihailovich Alexandrov, said to have been chief of the Balkan Division of the Foreign Commissariat, turned up in Sofia as Counselor of Legation, reportedly charged with giving Boris moral support in refusing German demands. Another day Tass, the official news agency, issued a gruff statement: "If German troops really are present in Bulgaria and if the further dispatch of German troops to Bulgaria really is taking...
...that the Comintern had no Navy. A reference to the "Baltic Division of the Foreign Office" was censored because "there are no Soviet troops in the Baltic now-not even a battalion, let alone a division, and in any case the Red Army is not under the Foreign Affairs Commissariat...
Alarmed, Premier Edouard Daladier gave in to the complaints and promised: 1) to limit censorship to "military, diplomatic and national necessities"; 2) to centralize all propaganda in a responsible Ministry of Public Information. Until now press censorship has been controlled by a mere Commissariat of Information, radio censorship by its separate bureau. The jobs now have Cabinet status. Taking note of the Daladier promises, the Chamber gave the Government a 450-to-0 vote of confidence. "I trust," threatened the Premier, "that I shall not be asked in a few days to put an end to this liberty...
...articulate, effective, and well-acquainted all over the world as her White House hostess and considerably better dressed. On the day after break of war, that smart novelist & playwright Jean Giraudoux, now French Information Minister, with sure instinct chose smart Eve Curie to head the feminine section of his Commissariat of Information. To White House correspondents Miss Curie emphasized the point that French women are out to bring this war to a decisive finish. "Peace will not come soon," she said, "and it will not come at all while the Hitler regime remains in Germany - because the French are determined...
...other foot. French papers have been toying with the notion of using General Weygand's Army-plus a Turkish Army-on a "Caucasian front"-i. e., in a campaign directed at Russia's rich oil fields. Krasnaya Zvezda, newsorgan of the Soviet Union's Commissariat of Defense, observed: "The scale of war preparations of the Anglo-French bloc in the Near East . . . leads us to think that we are not faced there by a mere diversion limited in scope and character, but by far-reaching strategic plans." Fortnight ago First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill invited...