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Bulgaria. Yugoslav intelligence sources reported the arrest of 200 high officials of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Rather than yield to Communist requisition of their produce, many Bulgarian peasants are burning their crops and taking to the forests and mountains, where they form small armed bands. An estimated 40,000 Bulgarian peasants have been deported from the Yugoslav-Bulgarian border region to concentration camps, another 35,000 sent to prison, and 1,800 of more peasant families interned in their homes...
...Soviet rulers have given up their ideas of world conquest. . . They are putting themselves in the position where they can commit new acts of aggression at any time." Then he passed along a piece of intelligence: Rumania recently cleared a strip of land 30 miles deep along her Yugoslav border. "Bulgaria and Hungary have done the same thing. Military preparations have been going on in those zones along the border...
...long speech in which he 1) referred only briefly to Korea, with emphasis on Russia's peace-loving efforts to bring about a truce; 2) attacked the West as usual for warmongering and plotting aggression against Russia. Most ominous note: a sharp attack on Tito's Yugoslav regime. Cried Molotov: "Realizing that the Yugoslav people hate this hired gang of criminals who stole its way to power, the Tito regime holds itself in power by bloody terror. This cannot continue long. The peoples of Yugoslavia will find a way to freedom and liquidation of the Titoist Fascist regime...
ALONG the marshy banks of Lake Scutari on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, red-kerchiefed shepherdesses tend their flocks, and on the lake, fishermen in shallow wooden canoes spear fish with steel-tipped lances. Across the lake it is possible to see the outlines of the Albanian city of Scutari (pop. 29,000). That is just about the only view an outsider can get of Albania today, but from the stories that drift across the frontier, it is possible to piece together a more accurate picture. Albania is the only satellite state which is not joined geographically to the Soviet family...
Tito's discovery of the glories of capitalism seemed to be prompted not only by sad experience but by great expectations. Belgrade last week let it be known that only one obstacle remained before the World Bank would grant a loan of $200 million for Yugoslav industrial construction: someone would have to underwrite the country's 1951-54 trade deficits. Tito, it was disclosed, had appealed to the U.S. and Britain to be the underwriters...