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Stalin made him a deputy of the Supreme Soviet and chief of the Comintern. In this post, Dimitroff promoted "popular fronts" abroad. After the dissolution of the Comintern in 1943. he lapsed into relative silence. Now he will help keep his native Bulgaria in the Soviet sphere...
...authorities have indicated that the Church wants to reach an understanding with the westward-moving Soviet Union. For its part, says the Church, the objective is strictly nonpolitical: all it wants is for the Kremlin to grant complete religious liberty to all persons in Russia and in the Russian sphere of influence. In return, Rome says that the Kremlin can count on the Church to "place no obstacle in the path of justifiable Russian political expansion...
...called on Congress immediately to ratify the Bretton Woods monetary agreement negotiated by 44 of the United Nations last summer (TIME, July 10 et seq.). He followed this with a warning that Congress should then get ready for action on seven other treaties or agreements in the international economic sphere...
...Where necessary, the Big Three powers reserve the right to intervene in the affairs of liberated countries (as Britain did in Greece) until the people of those countries can "create the democratic institutions of their own choice." The Big Three's words presumably applied to Russia's sphere (Bulgaria, Rumania, etc.): "They jointly declare their mutual agreement to concert, during the temporary period of instability in liberated Europe, the policies of their three Governments in assisting the peoples liberated from the domination of Nazi Germany, and the peoples of the former Axis satellite states of Europe, to solve...
There was the stubborn fact of Russia's entrenched power through half of continental Europe from Finland to Greece. Did Russia mean to exclude her allies completely from this sphere...