Evening star., 1946-03-23
Letters to The Star
Bulgarian Representative Denies
Communist Support

In the eQltorlal publlShed IN the
March issue Of The Star under the title
Our Note on Bulgaria" 1t is stated that
in Bulgaria "a government headed by
Communists trained in Russia back
ed by Russian bayonets has arrogated
to itself all power, has killed or impris-
oned the leaders of the opposition
parties and has attempted to legalize
itself by elections which are an utter
travesty of that much abused word"
AS member of the Bulgarian resist
ance movement and as a fighter for
many years against the tyranny of the
German Coburg dynasty I take the
liberty to remind you of some facts
which have been overlooked in the ar
ticle in question:
The Bulgarian government, established
in September, 1914, is headed by K.
Gherghiev, member of the Republican
party, who is no Communist and never
has been a Communist, and all through
his political career has had no connec-
ton with Moscow In the cabinet only
four ministers out of 16 are Commun-
lists, and no one of them has ever played
any role in Moscow or in the Comintern:
they always have lived in Bulgaria,
mostly in the Bulgarian czarist prisons
or concentration camps.
The present Bulgarian regime was
established by revolution carried out
by all anti-German political parties:
Agrarians, Communists, Republicans and
Socialists, before there were any Russian
troops on Bulgarian territory. Outside
the governmental coalition were left
only the pro-German and Fascist ele-
ments, branded as collaborationists. The
first act of this "undemocratic" govern
ment was to mobilize a 340,000-man
army and to join the democracies in
their fight against the Germans. The
Bulgarians fought in Bulgaria, in Yugo-
slavia, in Hungary and in Austria, which
not all the satellite countries, now recog-
nized by the United States of America,
did.
had the privilege to lead the first
Bulgarian Army in many battles against
the Germans, and wish had the OPP
portunity to tell you the story of hero
ism and sacrifice of hundreds of thou
sands of Bulgarian officers and men in
this struggle =.
AS for the leaders of the opposition
KILLED or imprisoned" am sorry to say
there must be some confusion on the
part of the author of the article Not
single leader of the opposition has been
killed. On the contrary, they enjoy
good health and their daily attacks on
the government, by no means less vio-
lent and unrestrained than in any other
democratic country, are published free
ly and discussed by many newspapers.
BY the way. be 1t mentioned that there
Is no censorship whatsoever under the
present regime.
The peoples courts tried and SEN
fenced to death people-cabinet min
isters. deputies, government officials and
police chiefs-who were responsible for
the declaration Of war on the United
States Of America and Great Britain
and who either had contributed to drag
the country on the side of Germany or
have enslaved it economically to the
Germans or for years savagely had
suppressed the resistance movement by
killing more than 10000 resisters. The
same clique around the palace has led
Bulgaria three times in one generation
into catastrophe by throwing her into
war against her neighbors and against
the democracies. In September, 1914,
the Bulgarian people punished severely
the most responsible members OF the
court camarilla and their henchmen in
dark past.
AS for the elections, they were the
first free elections that ever have been
held in Bulgaria. Proof for that is that
the large number of foreign correspond
ents, American, British, French, etc.
representing newspapers of various
political trends, who were touring the
country on the election day and many
weeks before, did not register a single
case of violence.
reshufi1ing of the Bulgarian cabinet
with the view to attract again in the
government the dissident fraction Of
the Agrarian party which left the
government a few months ago, there
is no lack of good will on the part of our
government. It invited, in compliance
with the decisions taken by the three
Foreign Ministers at their Moscow meet
ing, the leaders of the opposition to en-
ter the cabinet, but the latter made their
collaboration dependent on conditions
that were not provided for in the de-
cision Of the great powers. Mr. Vishin.
sky, who, intrusted by the three Foreign
Ministers to communicate this decision
to the Bulgarian government. explained
to them that the tenor Of the decision
Is pure and simple admission in the
government of two representatives of
the opposition. 1t is obvious that, if no
agreement has been reached until now,
1t is not the fault of the Bulgarian gov
ernment. However, it is our earnest
hope that the three great powers will
soon agree on the Interpretation of their
own decision and this will enable Bull
garia to obtain the recognition of her
government.
AS the Bulgarian people are very
anxious to maintain the friendliest re-
lations with America and appreciate
very much American public opinion,
think that your newspaper, which en-
joys such high moral credit, would not
hesitate to correct some inaccuracies
that occasionally might appear in Its
columns.
I am sorry that my absence from
Washington prevented me from sending
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