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...Inside Sofia's National Theater, 1,000 delegates rhythmically clapped their hands and set up a monotone chant, "Dimitrov, Stalin, Dimitrov, Sta-lin." Led by Premier Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist bigwigs and visitors from 18 foreign Communist parties strode up to the stage. The first congress since 1922 of the Bulgarian Communist Party was called to order. By week's end, it had mapped out a program to fit the line from a Communist Youth song: "In five years, the moon will look down and will not recognize Bulgaria...
Chinese Communist Mao Tse-tung, whose troops were overruning a land of 460 million people (see FOREIGN NEWS), had just about cinched the title of Communism's Man of the Year. At a party rally in Sofia, the cheers for the name of China's strong boy were just as loud and just as long as those for Stalin...
...Stambolov, Bulgaria's anti-Russian, anti-Turkish "Bismarck," looking around for a new prince, settled on Clementine's Ferdinand. Subsequently, a contemporary account records, Ferdinand, a "handsome, smiling, slender youth, perfectly corseted, lips and cheeks bravely rouged, leaving in his wake an exotic perfume, rode gallantly into Sofia amid the cheers of his devoted people." His confidence in his people's devotion was not unbounded; he kept a pistol on his desk when receiving visitors...
...support of Russia's Nicholas II, after Stambolov had been conveniently hacked to death by an assassin. He promoted himself from prince to czar, later sealed his own regal fate by choosing Wilhelm's side in World War I. In 1918 he stole out of Sofia, leaving his throne to his son Boris...
...Even a Goat. Captured guerrillas told of foreign aid. Said 27-year-old Elefterios Tsakales, a former shoemaker of Soufli: "I left Greece on Nov. 26, 1946, stayed a few days in Sofia and went on to a camp at Bulkes, Yugoslavia, where I remained until a month ago. One night we were called up and told that we would free Greece from the American fascists...