Word: sofias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Red Albania, geographically isolated by Tito's defection from the Communist empire, came disconnected and vague reports of rebellion against the government. Czechoslovak Red leaders talked out loud about "reactionary hyenas . . . prowling among us." Radio' Sofia, official mouthpiece of Red Bulgaria, spoke of "traitorous elements" fighting the regime...
Next morning at 9:30, after waiting for Europe's famed Simplon-Orient Express to roar along the nearby tracks on its way from Sofia to Istanbul, the Greeks opened fire with machine guns and mortars. After 60 minutes' bombardment and no reply, four bedraggled Bulgars crept off the sandbank and sloshed across the river into the woods on the Communist side. By nightfall, despite a constant barrage of propaganda insults on the Bulgarian and Greek radios, and much continued fluttering at U.N., General Manidakis was able to report that all was quiet on the Evros front...
Died. Petko Stoyanov, 71, second surviving member of Bulgaria's anti-Communist triumvirate, former cabinet minister (1944-47); of undisclosed causes; in a "People's Militia" prison in Sofia...
...Palizzi's sailors told what they knew. The crate had been nailed up in Sofia 40 days earlier. It had been taken by train to Burgas, where it had lain on the dock for many days. Said one sailor "The man inside was lucky, for usually such crates are opened by the Burgas customs." The crate had been stowed away in the hold of the Palizzi. There it had remained as the little ship steamed through the Bosporus to Istanbul, Smyrna and Genoa where arrangements had been made to fumigate the hold. Said a sailor later...
Marseille police reporters soon had a story fleshed out. The man's name was Dontcho Christov, once a top civil servant in King Boris' government of Bulgaria. Christov had stayed on in Sofia after the Communists took over. But when things had got too hot for him he had climbed into his old Ford and taken off. A message to Paris announcing his coming had been delayed. When it finally arrived, officers of the Services de Documentation et de Contre-Espionnage had wired the local Sūreté to take care...