Office of the Historian

874.00/10–2246: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes)92

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Washington, October 24, 1946—3 p.m.

346. Urtel 846, Oct. 22. Dept spokesman informed press Oct 23 your report that on oral instructions of Soviet Chairman ACC Bulgarian Govt through Ministry Information instructed Bulgarian press not to publish correspondence between Secretary and PriMin and between Robertson and ACC Chairman concerning Bulgarian elections. Voice of America carrying same announcement in its Bulgarian language broadcasts.

Please ask Robertson communicate to Biryusov this Govt’s protest against Soviet instructions to Bulgarian Govt this instance and request that such unwarranted instructions be withdrawn and publication correspondence authorized.

Acheson
  1. Telegram 873, October 30, 1946, from Sofia, reported that the Department’s telegram was not received until the morning of October 30 (874.00/10–3046).↩