Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1947 — Page 7

THURSDAY, AUG. 28, 1947

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over the purge. Drumhead ‘people’s courts’ executed hundreds Father Stain by Political Assassins Under Old [atrocities in Greece were

—and a good many weren't, Generals Spared

{they went over to the Communists. “Our party papers were throttled,

Nikola Petkov, leader of the opposition Agrarian party in Bulgaria, has suddenly emerged as an international figure. He was sentenced to death by the Communist-dominated Bulgarian dictatorship. His The Communists, backed by the Red accusers brand him a “Fascist reactionary” who conspired to over- |yrmy overruled everybody. I stayed throw the fatherland; his friends call him “the latest democrat” te on in the government while the war fall victim ta the Soviet’s power drive in the Balkans. lasted, to avoid creating a crisis. Hal Lehrman, wartime OWI chief in Turkey and author of & [Two months after the German surbook, “Russia’s Europe,” knew_Mr. Petkov well. Here Is render, I resigned. Since then I've

in the cabinet we were powerless.

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| LONDON, Aug. 28.—A fish story| tried to pull the fish out by grasp- | ™ which the luckless fisherman|ing the tail with a sponge-holding| {played Jonah in reverse and almost forceps. | choked to death is reported by Dr.| {R. M. B. Lowis, acting surgeon,

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The patient by this time was, [turning blue so he was taken to the operating room and an open Was | the British medical association here. | ous BIE his neck Opetiing was! | ‘The fish was no whale, being five pipe and a tube inserted. This let| |inches .long and slightly over three| him breathe freely again, but mean-| {in circumference, Malayans call it while his jaws had become firmly! {closed and could not be opened. | | { When the fisherman drew in his| His mouth was then opened and net in a rice field and peered over the surgeon put a finger down his the edge to inspect his catch, the throat alongside the fish. His finger-| {fish leaped out of the water into his nail could just reach the fin, With {mouth and disappeared down his this finger down the patient's throat |

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forthcoming Mr. Lehrman’s first-hand picture of the condemned Bulgarian oppo- [been living on borrowed time.” sition chief. It is written exclusively for The Times and other Scripps- | Later Mark \W. Ethridge was sent Howard newspapers. 'by Washington to inspect the Bul-| |garian situation. One evening, after! {a conference with Mr. Ethridge, | My father and my brother Petkov stepped out into a Sofia h specially cho.| Were murdered by political assassins under the old royalist regime.) street to find a Communist-organ-gs you and comfort from hay | Unless I stop criticizing this new Communist regime, it will probably ized mob--unaware of his presence miseries Calin han relieve your Ty murder me’ too. Only this time it'll be done ‘legally’. | howling for his blood. That's what Nikola Petkov, leader of the Bulgarian democratic ‘| opposition, told the writer just a year ago. We sat in a lonely road- | SEN JABLETS dey [SDPO —— | side tavern 10 miles outside Sofia where we had met for an undis-| turbed interview on the plight of | Bulgaria under Red army rule. | ‘This month a rigged Sofia court| condemned Petkov on a phony| charge of “Fascist” conspiracy to {overthrow the Communist-dom-{inated fatherland front government of Bulgaria. | Petkov's major political crime was that he trusted Soviet pfomises. He is about as “Fascist” as Henry Wallace. He was as resolutely pro-Soviet (during the war as Wallace is today. {But in this month's lynch trial the {prosecution dug up 65 witnesses to swear to Mr, Petkov's “treason.”

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gent protests—it will not only be legal ‘murder but also the latest and greatest Communist double. cross in the Balkans, Far from conspiring against the, fatherland front, the stocky, hook-| nosed Petkov risked his life in the coup d'etat which put the front in| power. Petkov was a conspirator— but against the Nazis. During the | war he was arrested and jailed four| times by the Bulgarian gestapo for | underground activities against the | government of King Boris, then] Hitler's ally. The only reason he wasn't exe-

SENTENCED TO DIE—Nikola Petkov, branded a ‘Fascist reactionary,” has ‘been convicted and doomed to death by the Communist-dominated Bulgarian dictatorship.

throat, It stuck there, the long and another on the outside of it, spiked dorsal fin firmly embedded the surgeon maneuvered the fish, in the wall of the pharynx, Friends much as a baby is sometimes maand relatives tried In vain to dis- neuvered and turned during child-| lodge the fish and finally brought birth, to a head-first position and the man to the hospital In what “successfully delivered” it from the | Dr. Lowis terms a “very distressed patient's throat. In two days the Monarch Sales Co. Ine.

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{ politicians, terrorism at the polls| 3 of 465 seats in parliament. ee On the floor of the national as{sembly, Petkov continued to speak! jout bravely. Communist deputies {shouted and booed, but they couldn't {shut him up. It took his arrest on {June 6, and this month's death |sentence, to do that. By that verdiet, the Communists and the Kremlin demonstrated once again that democrats can't do business with Stalin except on Stalin's terms. “I was what you Americans call a dead duck,” he told me, “as soon

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