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From iron-curtained Bulgaria the U.N.'s International Children's Emergency Fund at Lake Success last week received a poem in praise of milk. It was written by an eleven-year-old girl, Marche Dobreva, inmate of Sofia's Michena Greza Orphanage and one of 3,500,000 children in twelve European nations receiving supplemental food from the fund...
...correspondents in Berlin, the invitation was an eye-popper. The Soviet-dominated Bulgarian government, which has shown little liking for U.S. newsmen, politely invited them to cover Premier Georgi Dimitrov's big Fatherland Front Congress in Sofia. The terms sounded too good to be true: there would be no censorship; the correspondents could go where they pleased, stay as long as they liked, and English-speaking Sofia newsmen would serve as interpreters...
...Americans who went were joined in Sofia by the New York Times's broad and breezy William H. Lawrence, who had come on from Bucharest. Things went swimmingly at first. A Sofia reporter met the Wall Street Journal's small, quiet Joe Evans over a drink, and was amazed. "We expected to see a bloated capitalist," he said...
...when a LIFE photographer took a picture on a Sofia street, he was arrested-and then released with an embarrassed apology from the Foreign Office. On a side trip to the Pernik coal mines, the Bulgarian general in charge succumbed to habit; he wagged a forbidding finger when the first American camera appeared...
Last week, Moscow's Pravda, the Communist Party's voice of authority, decided that the time had come to scotch the dream. It thundered: "Pravda believes these countries do not need a problematical and artificial federation, confederation or customs union." In Sofia, disciplined Communist Dimitrov heard and heeded. In effect, he cried: I was misquoted...