Word: dimitroff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even among Balkan politicians, who are much sought after by direct-actionists, Dr. Georgi Dimitroff, 43-year-old ex-Secretary General of the Bulgarian Agrarian Party, seems to bear a charmed life. Four years ago he escaped German arrest by leaving his country in a load of oranges shipped out by British diplomats. Four months ago he escaped Russian arrest, this time by falling inside the opened door of the U.S. political representative in Sofia, Maynard B. Barnes (TIME, June 11). Last week, still in the reassuring company of Mr. Barnes, Dimitroff and his wife emplaned from the capital, with...
...fugitive was Dr. Georgi M. Dimitroff,* pro-Allied ex-Secretary General of the democratic Agrarian Party. He was seeking sanctuary from his Russian-controlled Government, which was trying to arrest him on unspecified charges. In Moscow last week the Russian Government urged the U.S. to hand over Dr. Dimitroff forthwith. In Washington Acting Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew replied that the matter was under discussion with the Bulgarian Premier and Foreign Minister, "who have not yet found a solution that would provide against Dr. Dimitroff becoming a victim of violence...
...confused with George Dimitroff, former Secretary of the former Communist International...
...Germany at the time of the famed Reichstag fire trial in 1933, and the Nazis tried to make him a scapegoat, along with dullard Marinus Van der Lubbe and German Communist Ernst Torgler. But they found Dimitroff too hot to handle. The flimsy case against him collapsed. Once again Moscow intervened, conferred Russian citizenship on the Bulgarian and obtained his release, then sent a plane to whisk him to his new home. He was hailed as a hero. Lenin's widow and sister sent him flowers. "I am a soldier of the revolution," Dimitroff said, "and will fight where...
Stalin made him a deputy of the Supreme Soviet and chief of the Comintern. In this post, Dimitroff promoted "popular fronts" abroad. After the dissolution of the Comintern in 1943. he lapsed into relative silence. Now he will help keep his native Bulgaria in the Soviet sphere...