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Bulgaria has only 8,300 Protestants. The predominant sect (84%) is the Moscow-stooge Greek Orthodox Church. Communist Premier Georgi Dimitrov comes from one of the country's few Congregationalist families. Last week, a U.S. Balkan expert noted that Dimitrov's first "revolutionary act" was refusal to go to Sunday school, his most recent was to jail 15 of Bulgaria's leading Protestant churchmen...
Lange went to his home behind the royal castle, relaxed in an easy chair, and drafted the reply in longhand on two foolscap sheets. He submitted it to Premier Einar Gerhardsen (his cellmate during the war in the Nazis' Sachsenhausen concentration camp), and to the foreign affairs committee of the Storting (Parliament...
...This has done them little good in Hungary where their schools have been nationalized. Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass, who tried to oppose the Communists, is in prison on a phony black-marketing charge. Ferenc Nagy, a leading Presbyterian who as Premier tried to collaborate with the Communists, was forced to flee the country...
...Premier Sun Fo's first press conference in Canton, he denied a rumored rift between himself and Li: "Technically, the capital remains in Nanking. The government is just functioning in a different place...
Died. Count Nobuaki Makino, 88, Japan's liberal elder statesman and longtime adviser (Keeper of the Privy Seal, 1925-35) to Emperor Hirohito; in Tanaka, Japan. Forced out by the militarists, he made a comeback after V-J day, exerting potent political influence through his son-in-law Premier Yoshida...