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...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...
...factory worker's son and a militant trade unionist, Dimitroff began making international incidents in the early 1920s. En route to the second Comintern Congress in Moscow, he was picked up in Rumania as a spy, was rescued from liquidation by Russian intervention. In 1923 he led Bulgaria's abortive Communist revolt, barely escaped with his life across the Yugoslav border...
...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...