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Bulgaria. Some 25,000 arrests, 36 executions reportedly followed open insurrection and revolt. The insurgents were pro-Russian, many were proCommunist. The underground Communist newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo attracted enough notice to be frequently quoted in the Swedish press. Railroad and police stations were attacked. Telephone and telegraph communications between Bulgaria and all other countries were cut off for seven days. The unrest last week was attributed to reports that King Boris had agreed to send 20 divisions to help Hitler against Russia...
...watching Chinese developments catlike, their Embassy spokesman in Shanghai said: "I do not think the situation will immediately take a serious turn. Remember that Chiang Kai-shek only got where he is today by pursuing a strong anti-Communist program, and we do not believe he will become sincerely proCommunist. Nor do we think the Soviets will give him much aid, because his anti-Communist record of so many years is against him in Moscow. We forecast that Dr. Kung will soon become Premier of China to relieve Generalissimo Chiang of some of his responsibilities and leave him in full...
...responsibility as no gentleman and a War Lord, burst open Soviet Embassy offices at Peiping and filled the world for weeks with evidence of its machinations which Communists loudly called "forged." It seemed last week entirely against the nature of Young Chang to have taken a proCommunist line...