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...Deputy Kosta Lulchev, spokesman of the isolated little nine-man parliamentary opposition, had dared to criticize the budget as "insincere and unreal." Dimitrov gave them Red blazes: "Miserable chatterers, talking like a foreign gramophone record . . .! You will remember that in this Assembly I many times warned coalition members of Nikola Petkov's group but they did not listen. They lost their heads, and their leader lies buried. Reflect on your own actions, lest you suffer the same fate . . .!" Lulchev and associates reflected furiously. Dimitrov's budget was adopted unanimously...
...Lately, "confessions" had been bringing Mikolajczyk's own arrest closer. He had said many times: "I will never leave the country." But lately he had also been saying more & more often: "I will be arrested. And when I am, they will do to me what they did to Nikola Petkoff...
...three Americans had to act surreptitiously. Quietly they bought a funeral wreath. They waited until shortly before they were due to leave Bulgaria by plane. Then they put the wreath in a jeep, headed for the airport, but turned off to a cemetery. On the fresh, unmarked grave of Nikola Petkoff, executed eight days before for his opposition to Bulgaria's Communist-dominated Government (TIME, Oct. 6), they laid the wreath. Each spoke a few words in memory "of one of the greatest democrats of all time...
There was a curiously ironic angle to Nikola Petkoff's legal murder. When Georgi Dimitroff awaited trial in a Nazi jail, Petkoff was one of a group of Bulgarian political leaders who arranged for Dimitroff's 72-year-old mother, Baba Parashkeva, to visit him. Gratefully she said then: "If my son lives through this, he will repay you a thousand times...
...Bulgaria last week the Communist-dominated Government silenced democratic opposition by hanging Nikola Petkoff after his conviction on trumped-up treason charges. Petkoff, leader of the democratic Agrarian Party, was a patriot. He fought the Nazis and spent part of the war behind German barbed wire. After the Russians put the small Bulgarian Communist Party in power, Petkoff opposed the Communists led by the old Comintern agent, Georgi Dimitroff, hero of the Reichstag-fire trial...