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...correspondents in Berlin, the invitation was an eye-popper. The Soviet-dominated Bulgarian government, which has shown little liking for U.S. newsmen, politely invited them to cover Premier Georgi Dimitrov's big Fatherland Front Congress in Sofia. The terms sounded too good to be true: there would be no censorship; the correspondents could go where they pleased, stay as long as they liked, and English-speaking Sofia newsmen would serve as interpreters...
Then the Times's Bill Lawrence wrote that Dimitrov's congress made Bulgaria "a one-party state today, her internal and foreign policies openly modeled on and wedded to the Soviet Union." That was too much for the Bulgarians' experiment with freedom of the press. They rolled up the red carpet and clanged down the portcullis...
...Moscow's wary, cautious eye, Bulgaria's ambitious Premier and ex-Comintern Boss Georgi Dimitrov and Yugoslavia's restless, bellicose Marshal Tito were pedaling too far and too fast...
Last week, Moscow's Pravda, the Communist Party's voice of authority, decided that the time had come to scotch the dream. It thundered: "Pravda believes these countries do not need a problematical and artificial federation, confederation or customs union." In Sofia, disciplined Communist Dimitrov heard and heeded. In effect, he cried: I was misquoted...
...Czarist foreign policy, did not want a revived and enlarged Austro-Hungarian empire; partly (and more important), from fear that their puppets might get out of hand. Party discipline inside the U.S.S.R. has been maintained for so long by police power that Moscow looks askance at Communists like Dimitrov and Tito who control police states of their...