761.74/8–1845: Telegram
The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State
[Received 3 p.m.]
453. I have just seen what I consider to be an absolutely authentic résumé of the report of the Bulgarian Representative in Moscow on a conversation he had with Vyshinski after latter’s return from Potsdam and immediately before departure of Biryusov for Sofia this week bearing Moscow’s message of recognition and reestablishment of diplomatic relations with Bulgaria. Vyshinski pointed out that Russia and Russia alone has in the past run the Control Commission in Bulgaria and declared that it will do so in the future. He said the term “most important questions” (see paragraph 1 of Voroshilov’s letter of July 1237 was a very elastic term and Russia will [Page 296] exploit its elasticity to the limit. Replying to the Bulgarian representative’s question as to whether the US and UK will try to impose a Bulgarian Mikolajczyk38 on the FF, Vyshinski asked: “What did our Allies accomplish in Poland by such step?” He also assured Bulgarian representative Russia has no intention of permitting foreign journalists to observe electoral procedures in Bulgaria. He said he considered Allied demand at Berlin for entry of journalists an impudence. He added the temperature at Berlin had been very high at times but the US delegation left realizing eastern Europe has been permanently lost to Russia by Anglo-Americans.
Rptd Moscow as 232.
- See telegram 286, July 13, 11 p.m., from Budapest, p. 834; see also text quoted in Protocol of Proceedings of the Berlin Conference, August 1, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), vol. ii, pp. 1478, 1494.↩
- Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the Polish Peasant Party in exile during the war and Prime Minister until November 1944; he became Vice Premier and Minister of Agriculture in the Polish Government of National Unity in June 1945.↩