To the Exit

Last week Bulgaria longed to get out of the war with the longing of a dying man for life. In Sofia before an extraordinary session of Parliament Premier Ivan Bagrianoff spoke extraordinary words. What he said might be timely demagoguery, but it implied that Bulgarians wanted to hear it, and it foreshadowed the. social changes which may accompany the break of satellite states with the Nazis.

Said Bagrianoff: "The majority of the Bulgarian people never wanted to interfere in a large-scale conflict between great powers. The Government declares it fully recognizes this. It is determined to remove all obstacles that stand in the way of the Bulgarian people's love for peace.

"Our barefoot and naked peasant would like to know why he is barefoot and naked . . . why people have forgotten the taste of meat." Bulgaria, he said, was in "a state of economic chaos.

"This war will certainly end with a large-scale social organization of mankind, both horizontally and vertically. It will end with certain achievements as far as the form of government is concerned . . . will lead to the strengthening of the democratic concept ... to more political freedom for the individual. It will end with achievements in the economic field that will reduce the exploitation of man by man. . . ."

Clearly Premier Bagrianoff was running, not walking, toward the nearest exit--Russia.

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