Word: petkoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost throttled open opposition in Eastern Europe. Last week their stooges took over the remnants of Mikolajcyk's Peasant Party in Poland and denounced "Anglo-Saxon imperialism." Last fortnight a military court sentenced Rumania's Maniu to life imprisonment. Yugoslavia's Mihailovich and Bulgaria's Petkoff had long since been shot. Hungary's Communists had swallowed the Smallholders Party, and last week Czech Communists began to break up their opposition with arrests...
...paper protests of the U.S. Government against crooked elections in Poland and Hungary or against Petkoff's condemnation make the dullest Communist leaders just laugh, because they know as well as you that the U.S. Government is neither prepared nor willing to back its protests by that which counts, i.e., by force...
...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...
...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...
...history, their simple gesture might prove to be a moral aid to Europe as important in its way as material aid. For they had answered, for all free men to hear, the silent question posed by Petkoff's grave: "Am I my brother's keeper...