Evening star., 1949-02-27
bulgarian Clergyman
Calls Himself Rotten ,
1ooI Of Capitalism
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list, and the Rev. Nikola Naumov,
4 a Baptist,
1.-THE trial will reconvene Mon
&y.
4Mr. Ziapkov, who was assigned
tbe 18th seat at the formal open
i&g of the hearing yesterday, took
t4e stand after Mr.. Yvanov COM
neted seven hours of testimony
SMg. Ziapkov attacked the World
Council Of Churches, as did the
Ghers. He said it has been con-
@rted into an agency of Amer
iean capitalism merely to fight
communism. He said he and the
Qhers had not co-operated with
4e Bulgarian government and
HHd refused government efforts to
Cooperate for reconstruction OF
TIE country. He said he considered
tie Bulgarian government to be
tolerant of religion.
st,"Why am I here on trial after
IS years of preaching?" he asked
1.-THE answer is that there is really
4mething rotten in me.
What is that? The answer is
bat Is years ago I received a
d aholarship to England and they
Rhucked me from Bulgaria and
Alanted me in a foreign soil.
@Now I understand that I have
hsen in the service of a great
Gemy of my country. That enemy
uld not abide a fourishing Bull
@ria alongside a Greece torn by
order,'
asIn, his attack on the World
Council of Churches, some of
whose personnel have been named
as spy contacts" Mr.. ziapkov
sFid;
''What the United Nations Or
gsnization is in the political field.
the World Council is in the spirit
pal field.
He who dominates the United
Nations dominates the world.
He who dominates the world
church movement is dominating
The religious movements of the
world.
THE United States and Eng
md are dominating in the United
cations.
- The American churches are
iHemina ting in the world church
movement.
81 Behind. the American Protes-
liant stands American capitalism,
the greatest enemy of mankind.
The leaders of the world church
are agents of that capitalism. 1"
MIR Ziapkov thus expanded Mr..
Naumov's statement on the stand
yesterday:
Behind the Methodist church
stand the American magnates.
Behind the Baptist church stands
Rockefeller"
Afraid of Communism.
Mr.. Ziapkov said he and his
co-defendants we're blind to the
new"
I'VE were afraid of the success
of communism and socialism" he
said.
He was a delegate to the Paris
Peace Conference on Bulgaria in
1916. He claimed to have talked
there with many British and
American representatives, among
them Bernard Baruch. noted
American fnancier and adviser on
governmental affairs.
He said he tried to talk with
Mrs. Claude Pepper, wife of the
Florida Senator, but that Mrs
Pepper closed the door in my face
and said I don't want to talk tc
any Bulgarian.
He said he met Robert Tobias
secretary Of the Reconstruction
Department and Inter- Church Aid
of the World Council of Churches
Mr., Tobias told him. Mr.. ziap-
kov said, that Bulgarian Protes-
tants should stand in the front
line Of the fight against COM
munism.
Weeps Almost Steadily.
He quoted Mr.. Tobias as saying
There are three religious pow
ers fighting Communism-Romar
Catholicism, American Protestant
ism and Free Masons-and they
are all co-ordinating their efforts
to stop the rising wave Of Com.
munism from the East"
Mr.. ziapkov was weeping al.
most steadily.
He said he now regretted thai
the Bulgarian Protestants had {
definite negative attitude toWarc
our >liberator, the Soviet Union.
He expressed regret that "wt
couldn't understand that, Withoui
the Soviet Union. there would be
no Bulgaria"
This trial will be the end o.
my criminal activities and thu
beginning of a new life" he said
This trial will bring death to al
that was rotten within me anc
restore life to a new man to re-
turn to his people. Like thu
Prodigal Son. I am coming bacl
to my people"
Queried on Information.
Presiding Judge Constantil
pndjiev asked Mr.. Ziapko
whether "all the information yo1
collected you delivered to for
eign intelligence"
F. Yes, honorable judge he re
Hlied. I'VE did"
F. you delivered it to the tw
britain and the United States)
Yes. to the two"
NEr Zjonkov innlicatad othe