874.00/7–2545: Telegram
The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 26—9:25 a.m.]
382. Senior Regent Ganev told me last night that the decision of the Govt to go ahead with elections as reported in my telegram 381 of today’s date,11 may go sour on the Prime Minister and the Communists. He said that Petkov is seriously considering an appeal in [to] [Page 269] the three principal Allies by a letter to be sent to the three members of Allied Control Commission in which he will raise the question of whether the Yalta declaration on liberated Europe is to be applied in Bulgaria.
Repeated to Moscow as 197.