Evening star., 1946-03-09
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Mar. 9.-The tert OF
the SoUiet note to the United
States on the Bulgarian goUern-
nlent, as broadcast by the Mos
co1D radio and recorded here by
the Soviet monitor, tolIoUs::
The following statement has been
issued by the Peoples Commissariat
of USSR for Foreign Affairs:
On February 81, the Peoples Com
missariat for Foreign Affairs re-
ceived note from the American
embassy in Moscow notifying it that
on February % the State Depart
ment presented Gen. Stoichev, the
bulgarian representative in Wash
Iington, memorandum setting forth
the American governments position
as regards fulfllment of the deci-
Sions of the three ministers confer
ence in Moscow concerning Bulgaria
This memorandum stated that in
view of the misunderstanding evi-
IDENTIFY existing in certain circles in
Bulgaria as regards the United
States governments position on the
decision reached concerning Bull
garia at the three ministers con-
| ference in Moscow last December,
1.-THE United States Government
wished to have brought to the notice
of the Bulgarian government a
statement of its views on these mat
ters which it was communicating
to the Soviet and British govern
ments.
Interpretation Noted.
The Government of the United
States, this statement said. inter-
prefer the Moscow decision to mean
that the Bulgarian government and
Opposition should be asked to find
la mutually acceptable basis for the
participation in the Bulgarian gov
eminent OF two members who would
really represent the opposing par
ties.
The United States Government.
the Statement went on, had never
understood this to mean that pres
sure would be brought to bear on
the opposition to put forward two
candidates for inclusion in the
government pro forma, regardless
of the condition of their joining it.
While the Moscow agreement had
not specified any conditions for the
inclusion of the two opposition rep
resentatives it had provided. in the
opinion of the United States Gov
ernment, that the participation of
such representatives should be
made on condition mutually ac-
ceptable both to the Bulgarian gov
ernment and to the opposition.
1t has been and will still be the
sincere hope of the United States
Government, the statement said,
that, meeting in an atmosphere of
mutual conciliation, the represen-
tatives of the Bulgarian and oppo-
sition would be able to reach agree
ment and in fact would reach
agreement to work together on mu-
tually acceptable basis which would
enable two members of the opposi-
ton parties really representing
these parties to join the govern
ment.
Soviet Sends Reply.
Novikov, the Soviet charge daft
faires in the United States, pre-
sented to the State Department the
Soviet reply note, the text of which
now follows:
In connection with the memoran-
dunn presented by the State Depart
ment to the Bulgarian political rep
resentative in the United States on
February %, this note says, the So
Wet government has instructed me
to communicate the following:
The memorandum states that the
Moscow agreement provided that
the participation of the two oppo-
sition representatives should be
based on conditions mutually ac-
ceptable both to the Bulgarian gov
ernment and the opposition.
Actually, the decision Of the
three minister conference in Mos
cow in December, 1945 stipulated
only two conditions. These condi-
tions were that the two representa-
tives of Democratic groups to be
included additionally in the Bulgar-
ian government should:
A. Really represent the groups of
parties not participating in the
Government and,
B. Really be suitable and work
Loyalty with the Government.
No other conditions were Stipu-
lated in the Moscow conference
decision on Bulgaria.
Russian Statement.
In view of the above the Soviet
government finds it necessary to
state the following:
l. The statement made by the
United States Government to the
Bulgarian government on February
% does not conform to the decision
reached in Moscow on Bulgaria.
since the Moscow Conference deci-
sion says nothing about the opposi-
ton representative joining the Bull
garian government on the basis of
any mutually acceptable condition.
2. The statement made by the
United States Government infringes
the Moscow decision of the three
Ministers inasmuch as this state
ment put forward a new condition
for participation of opposition repre-
sentatives in the Bulgarian govern
ment, condition not provided in
that decision.
3. The Soviet government has be-
fore now drawn the attention of the
United States Government to the
fact that the United States rep