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...also heard an important unofficial suggestion this week: to restore the freedom and independence of Yugoslavia, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania. It came from members of the International Peasant Union, including former Hungarian Premier Ferenc Nagy, Bulgarian Opposition Leader Georgi M. Dimitroff, Croatian Peasant Leader Vladimir Macek...
...paraders also carried double-life-size portraits of Stalin, Bulgarian Communist Boss Georgi Dimitroff and General Markos, self-proclaimed head of the "Free Greek State" (TIME, Aug. 25). The marchers' song told of the exploits of Greek guerrillas. Leaflets strewn in their wake read: "Death to Monarcho-Fascists; Out with Anglo-American invaders; Long live the Free Greek State." A poster showed a Greek guerrilla standing atop the Acropolis; in Bulgarian, French and English were the words: "Out of the flames and ruins of Anglo-American occupation and Monarcho-Fascism, a free and democratic Greece is rising...
...Crystal Room of Washington's Burlington Hotel, two exiled agrarian leaders from Russian satellite states faced the press last week. "I hope," said Bulgarian Peasant Leader Georgi M. Dimitroff,* "that I speak better English than Stalin speaks democracy...
...Dimitroff spoke English with a thick accent and democracy with a ring of conviction. He read an appeal for "the creation of a democratic International Peasant Union and eventual realization of the United States of Europe." Dimitroff left no doubt where he stood in what Molotov called the "division of Europe." Ferenc Nagy, Hungary's ex-Premier and leader of its Smallholders' Party, sat beside him and nodded approval. Nagy had already symbolically established kinship with the U.S. by donning an American Indian headdress on a recent visit...
...confused with his old enemy, Georgi Dimitroff, top Communist of Bulgaria...