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Skopije, Jan. 29. Two Bulgarians sentenced today to death by shooting in a trial here of alleged spies and saboteurs from Sofia.
Two other defendants, of Yugoslav origin, were sentenced to eight and five years' imprison- ment respectively. Four other Bulgarians were sentenced to terms of forced labour ranging from eight to 13 years.
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Has He Said Wrong Thing?
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Churchill Lets Fly At The Liberals
London, Jan 29. In Parliamentary quarters tolay there was much speculation about the possi- ble consequences of the speech by the Conservative a leader. Me Winston Churchill, in his own Woodford
(Essex) constituency last night.
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Mr Your had!, abundentig the caption and modern s Ten a fuch – haracterised his broadened to the antion a worth argo, nesivalený "the sorry and Wanton mo hination-“
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SOVIET DOMINATION OF BULGARIA
Taking Ovér Economy, Lock, Stock And Barrel
NO TRADING WITHOUT PERMISSION
Belgrade, Jan. 29.--Soviet Russia is taking over Bulgarian econong lock, stock and barrel and deriving "huge profits" at the expense
of her satellite's, according to press reports published here in Yugoslavia.
Such information as is available from: Western diplomatic sources tends to confirm the reports.
The Belgrade newspaper "Glas," organ of the Serbian People's Front, has alleged, For that Bulgaria cannot act independently foreign trade.
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Two Years Of Subversive
Freedom Ends
Aiglers, Jon. 291. After over two years of freedom following successful prison, break, Roger Lequet, 28, sentenced to death for murder in 1947, has been arrested by police
here, it was an nounced today.
Lequet escaped from The prison at Alencon, Western France, in Sep- lember, 1917, with two other men, under sen. tence of death.
near
Leguet managed to reach North Africa while the others were arrested after 22 few days of freedom, instance,
Lequet has appealed timt his death sentence should be cornisted. Kruter.
regards
Some 80 percent of her exports, the newspaper sadi, go to the Soviet Union and Kussin does not allow But garia tre trade with other countries without her per
TOISTURE
According to "Clas." the Bulgarians have made several attempts In escape the Keemiline's This matter, but so far what inted three examples:
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Movement Active
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York, Jan. 29.-
United States
New Former Ambassatfor
to Moscow, Lieutenant General Walter Bell Smith, said today that a "fairly well organised underground"
In Busin proves that the Communists
have not swept
away all the vestiges of opposition behind the Iron Curtain."
He with speaking at an anti- Communial conference sponsored by the Aerican Legion, which began yesterday.
General Smith who also stated that the Communist Party • Int the United States received direct orders from Moscow, said: There is strong Maquis uvement in Lithuania due to Me rollerlivisation of agricul- Lure.
In
Other anti-Soviet centres of opposiůvti hust developed Latvia and the Ukraine, though Soviet police netion had largely eliminated the Ukratolan group,
CHAIN OF COMMAND
Paris. Jan. 29. The
General Santh added that the French National Assembly
underground organisation inado night approved the convention giving cross
I possible for anti-Communists through Soviet terri- mirasure of demeatte
they moving from one group to Le the State of Vietnam in Indo-'bina,
Brother."
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up a hundred candidates at the forth- coming election. It sounds almost impress sive, and the little band of not very des The Triviai Com men who lead perate munist party in the country speak of this in their newspaper
11 "Titanic Hat Britain has nothing tu campaign."
On fear from its band of Communists. the contrary, the question "that needs answering is why the Communist Party is so weak in a country that voted into power five years ago a Labour Government that derinred itself bent on Socialism und had a prograreme that was by no means wishy-washy, or middle-of-the-road. C'ont- muntsm, for all that it has a newspaper and makes a disproportionate amount of noise, is a feeble political movement in Britain. Looked at from the Cominform angle, Mr Harry Pollitt's "titanic campaign" must give the appearance of a house-to-house collection for charity. Just in time to answer some of the ques- tions why Communism makes no impres- sion on the average Briton, a group of aix ex-Communists, not all of them English, have published a book of essays analysing why they could not stay Com- The set of reasons put with munists. great clarity by such European figures as Arthur Koestler and Ignazio Silone are of the kind that have most force with the British people. For instance, running through the Alx
the same esunys, Is criticism of the irritating life of an in- tellectunt who finds himself in the Com- munist Party and is absolutely forbidden to disagree with the pundits of the party on any matter whatever. It is true, of course, that any party in any country goes
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or Muslim League.
In fuel, no politicni party can stay in one piece unless it applies this But the Communists carry i principle. to extremes. The party has a peculiar relationship with the Soviet Union. recruits Independent-minded people who, when they enter the party, do it stroke of Individualism to prove that they are thinking animais, and then they are compelled to accept the absolute rightness every act of the Soviet Socialist Republic. One point that drives recruits short time is to exasperation within a the incidental fact that the Russian State has been throughout its history- and long before Communism-particularly casual about human misery and loss of human life. The Communist party of any country rates pity as bourgeois sentiment
be despised. Yet it recruits members because thinking people are filled with pity for the suffering of their poorer neighbours and rush to Communism as a remedy. These are Important reasons why the Communist party of Grent Britain is q éxtraordinarily weak. It cannot muster, many more than 30,000 members and it is doubtful whether one person in fifly will vote the Communist way at the coming General Election. It is very hard for a Communist party la Britain to fight against the strong instinct of "non-conformism”—a plain, stubborn instinet never to believe esally what you are told to believe. This is an instinct that dominates the British voter.
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COMMUNISTS OPPOSE The vote in the Assembly was 401 1 (93 Opposition from the Communkts, who have
came
Askre whether the Soviet
Party in Union directed the Communist the United States, General Smith ryplled: "Tho evidence is profound and con- clusive that that is fle case We also see examples of its in Czechoslavidla and Poland,
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during the debate that France should get out of Indo-Chinua They said Hat Bao Dai is only a puppet
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All meetings postendent people,
The of the Misty's increased su7- from 21 To Mt. in the Pound Sterlin sanse delegate
CH exports in Human back to be of This ent pensable quality stol in the exac are o planung to run fquantities demanded, "yegardless afodaet the aope that cod the Turin maithinus the vole they maypartan economy
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of shivering cripples quoted m Ies hide the will of the majority loundra with winum Bul declaring that it would drive the Chunn provider, that the new
freezing weather outside a mis- government with control police | *** smull trader out of business garians had trade relatioun."
Jocial
niall here this morning wait- The tulenera
admolstration | 2954 representatives į services, The offer of the stricture on chor"
and estacation and local couets | Ing for 41-year-old William il odeled. "Bulgaring!aunounced after their meeting the man Liberal Party and thecotomy to subordinated to the
that
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with Jurisdiction they had
Viet-Freeman, in Advențist clergyman athenols be it to be seen Befe
chaotic End to in aday one of the chief hantle meat because
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conditions would result from dre present
einergency m totally
sincerantes | Mulieria, **
announced " -Reuter, Lebon, Jors
Mr De
The newspaper. Foot former Laberal Minister in this
alleged that the British
subordination Was Coalition apparent wartie
connection Gov egiment today answered Mr
with the "echnical aid" that Hunda Cherefill's
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charge thal
was supposed to give Bulgaria. Lateral candidates
were spht.
Tlas, at Iskar, near Sota, Ja the anti-Socialist
vela in the forthcom
[new mulloreur was scheduled lo General Elec-be bustit.
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Snow In Eastern Scotland
Laukon. Jan,
29-Snow fell
The Russians agreed 'beavily L Eastern Scotland
disputes between
citizens
He told tira packed hall that rahli11. ther
France will ❘ an angel came to his bedside worlátoz
lo conduct foreign when he was seriously ill seven
years ago and said: for Vietna
"Stroich And will guarantee her security and con-
out your hand. No discase can inue to have maliary buses. resist you."
Last night's Assembly ver Several people today said that tion also included approval of they
and con- were "cured similar Ivuties with Laos and verted by him, One reporter other Immo-Chinese hold his wrist to the ear of a | Cambodia,
provinces ruled by Kings—Ase wunjan who sat she was cured sociated Press.
of chronte deafness and asked
his other
ler supply the machines, material tanlay. Snow was also report- RECOGNITION SOON her 14 she could hear his watch "Mr Churchill stated that the end enginers to help constructed froin Devonshire In The London, Jan. 23.-Britain is ticking. When she said "yes" he | Liberal Party by splitting
south-west corner of England expected to grant de facto showed her his bare wrist and voles mury frustrate the will of According to "Glus," this help which normally enjoys milder recognition tu the
walch held in Vietnain his the majority of the nation," Mr | never materialized, however, weather than the rest of the Government t ex-Emperor mind. Foot raid.
There weze soms Suvict en country.
Dag Dul next week-end
ufter The Swedish Medical As- Kleers in Sotu far more than 15 The largest crowd of skaters the return to Loudun of Mr sociation has said that Freeman "I would have supposed that
days last August,' it said, "but for many years gathered today Ernest Bevin, the Foreign will be prosecuted if he lays the only frustrated voter was
the Juke they did not do anything because on
on high the Minister, it was learned from his hands on cancer or tuber- te who found himself deprived
Devonshire moors-Router,
(Continued on Page G) culous patients.-Reuter. of the opportunity to support the party at his choice," added-Reuter.
Father's
Despairing Act
here.
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the machinery never arrived.”
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HIGH SALARIES Nevertheless, the Sovint gineers had to be paid at the agreed rate of 2,000 leva per hour-or 16,000 leva day.
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Million-Dollar Search For Lost
White Horse, Yukon Ter-
This, "Glas" explained, was ritory, Jan. 29-American
more than.
the
day which Bulgarian on
C-54 Transport Plane
A fro that destroyed the two the Russian hold over Bulgaria, kies with 44 persons aboard.Enver Jogged onow-covered peaks
extreme
the
eight times salaries paid to Czech specialists and Canadian flyers raced.
"The probable cost of today In afwas still held that the big plane in Bulgaria, who received be against time
3,000 leva a hazardous million dollar would be found with survivora American operations alone has Kannibol, Missouri, Jan. 29.tween 2,000 and
reached. $1,000,000 in A young father shouted: "I am day and could not be compared search for an Air Force C-54 on some ley slope or frozen already golog to get my bubles or die at all with the meagre 250 to transport which disappeared lako.
Ens, pay for the men and other "Army officers sold the truns costs of maintaining operation," with them," then perished with 300 leva a
over Thursday
the port carried only a three-day sald Major Joseph Smith, who three children in a blazing shack engineers received.
V.S;
Air Force After citing other instances of treacherous Canadian Roc supply of food. The plane was is directing
tast heard from while fying operations.
cohl is present- The "Glas", concluded by saying that roomed home on the bank of the there is only one way for Bul- Nearly 80 planes zoomed into where temperatures hung lag a major difficulty, Ground Mississippi Ilivor killed 20-year- geria io get out of her present the sky at 10-15-minute in-degrees below zero.
crows are having a bord time economic difficulties,
Robert Hertzler. United Press warming up planes in the 24- which | tervals from n. score of airfleids old Thomas Woodrow
daughters two-year and five-year plans" strong and his two
In the United States and Canada, stoff
correspondent, reported
degrees below zero temperature. Barbara Ann, aged three, had done nothing to overcome. More than 7,000 men were in from Great Falls, Montana, hirit is still, snowing in this arco, Pearl, aged 11 months, and his
"The Bulgarian leadership," volved in the operation, one of base, the icey search-plane-dis-where the main search con- two-year-old son, Thomann. stated, "must start an Indepen- the greatest air searches of all patching centre, that 6000, men centrated, and planes report.
A fourth child, aged Eve, was dent policy which accords with time...
there were alding in the georch, ley conditions when they ny taken to hospital with burns. the vital interests of Bulgaria
Flyers started leaving their including crews. ground forces below: 4,000 feat;
which they The father's body wat found without accepting the economic bases at dawn in bitter cold, and auxillary personnel. The must do if they are going to crouched over his youngest child, and political subjugation of the clear weather to criss-cross a rest of men were aparuthing in conduct 'un effective meareli, **
Reuter.
U.S.S.R.”—Neuter.
3,800 square mile"area. "Hope | Canada,"
- United Press
Arm