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...exactly 9:30 p.m. A woman announcer in a black dress stepped to the platform. Said she: "In the name of the fatherland there will be a salute to the gallant warriors of the First Ukrainian front who have broken the defenses of the Germans - 20 volleys of artillery from 224 guns." The dark days of Stalingrad were over; the Polish offensive of January 1945 had begun...
...Bulgaria, the Fatherland Front of Premier Kimon Georgieff was being openly opposed by Agrarians, Social Democrats, plain Democrats, so-called Radicals...
...Communist newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo (Workers' Activity), reflecting the attitude of the Fatherland Front Government, predicted: "We are convinced that Ethridge's mission will facilitate and expedite the conclusion of a just peace treaty with Bulgaria...
Dimitroff, whose opposition to the Communist-dominated Fatherland Front Government of Premier Kimon Georgieff started him on his enforced travels, was bound for Italy to rest up. Barnes was headed for London, to report to the Council of Foreign Ministers on the reluctantly postponed Bulgarian elections. Before he left Sofia, spunky, outspoken Maynard Barnes spent two luminous hours talking to Tsola Dragoitcheva, Bulgaria's top woman Communist and top Fatherland Front boss. In brightly lit words he made it clear that the U.S. and Britain would not recognize the new Government unless they were satisfied there would...
...Central Committee of the Fatherland Front cordially promised to study the reforms proposed. Volko Tchervenkoff, member of the Communist Politburo, proclaimed: the Fatherland Front, having won the world's praise by agreeing to postpone the elections, would now win still more by giving the opposition every chance for a fair campaign. At week's end the Cabinet legalized the four opposition parties, promised free elections. Expected in Sofia soon from Moscow was another, better known Georgi Dimitroff, famed Communist international operative and onetime secretary of the former Communist International. Object of his mission: to organize the new Fatherland...