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...adventure," it said, might well be a fake last-minute assassination plot against Dewey, with the Communists, of course, blamed for it. Thundered Izvestia: "History includes a number of such insolent, crude provocations on the eve of parliamentary elections in democratic countries, up to the burning of the Reichstag in Germany...
...chosen chairman of Free Germany, and General Walther von Seydlitz, commander of the LI Army Corps at Stalingrad, became chairman of the Officers' League. Other charter members: Wilhelm Pieck, 68, participant with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the unsuccessful Communist attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic, ex-Reichstag deputy, wheelhorse of the pre-Hitler German Communist Party; Lieut. Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, great-grandson of Bismarck, ex-Luftwaffe pilot, and a pro-Russian proselytizer among his fellow officers...
Suddenly a long-missing Bulgarian ghost popped up-Comrade Georgi Dimitrov, onetime organizer of Bulgarian workers, onetime Communist International agent in Germany, onetime hero of the Reichstag fire trial, onetime secretary of the Communist International. In a letter to Sofia's Communist Rabotnitchesko Delo, Dimitrov welcomed Bulgarian troops to the side of the Red Army. Reported PM's Correspondent M. W. Fodor: "The letter has caused some uneasiness among Balkan nationals...
...college paper and studied billiards." He was in Vienna in 1919 when the London Daily Herald made him its Balkans reporter. United Press got him four years later, sent him to Moscow and Berlin. When the Nazis made it hot for him after he had reported their Reichstag arson plot as just that, he moved on to London. Marshall Field lured...
Bulgaria's shaky government got no rest from proddings by Germany's enemies to quit Germany's war. Latest poke came last week from Moscow's Pravda and the pen of Bulgar Georgi Dimitroff, onetime defendant at Naziism's Reichstag fire trial and secretary of the late unlamented Communist International (see p. 20). Warned Bulgar Dimitroff: "The national policy of Bulgaria, from the viewpoint of her future, demands loyal cooperation with her neighbors. . . . Only by breaking with Germany at once and assisting in the defeat of Germany will Bulgaria save herself from catastrophe...