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...Salonika representatives of ELD, SKE and the Agrarian Party (another EAM group) declared that the civil war had been caused "by the irreconcilable policy of the Communist Party." They warned that Bulgars and Yugoslavs had been fighting with the ELAS forces and that Greece might lose Macedonia or Thrace to Yugoslavia or Bulgaria...
Another dividend was also forthcoming. By one of the armistice terms, the Bulgars agreed to renounce all claims to Thrace, which is in Britain's Greek sphere of influence, evacuate all civilian Bulgars from the region. The Bulgars also agreed: ¶ To continue fighting the Germans. ¶ To renounce all claims to Yugoslav territory seized in 1941. ¶ To furnish food to Yugoslavia, Greece...
...northeast Greece the beaten Bulgarians began to withdraw from Thrace in answer to Allied demands. Off western Greece the British walked onto the island of Corfu, its once-green hills and flowered meadows torn by incessant bombing. Not a shot was fired...
...London last week the European Advisory Commission* worked out the final draft of an armistice for Bulgaria. Under its reported terms the Bulgars must withdraw immediately from Greek and Yugoslav territory in Macedonia and Thrace; pay reparations (amount not yet fixed) to Greece and Yugoslavia; continue fighting their erstwhile ally, Germany; permit the Allies to use Bulgaria for attacking Germany...
Bulgaria capitulated to the Russian Army on Sept. 6. Armistice terms were delayed because: 1) the E.A.C. was too busy with the bigger problem of what to do with Germany; 2) Bulgarians made no move to get out of Yugoslav Macedonia and Greek Thrace, a condition on which Britain insisted. Last week the Bulgars were reported ready to sign...