Armistice?

In London last week the European Advisory Commission* worked out the final draft of an armistice for Bulgaria. Under its reported terms the Bulgars must withdraw immediately from Greek and Yugoslav territory in Macedonia and Thrace; pay reparations (amount not yet fixed) to Greece and Yugoslavia; continue fighting their erstwhile ally, Germany; permit the Allies to use Bulgaria for attacking Germany.

Bulgaria capitulated to the Russian Army on Sept. 6. Armistice terms were delayed because: 1) the E.A.C. was too busy with the bigger problem of what to do with Germany; 2) Bulgarians made no move to get out of Yugoslav Macedonia and Greek Thrace, a condition on which Britain insisted. Last week the Bulgars were reported ready to sign.

Suddenly a long-missing Bulgarian ghost popped up--Comrade Georgi Dimitrov, onetime organizer of Bulgarian workers, onetime Communist International agent in Germany, onetime hero of the Reichstag fire trial, onetime secretary of the Communist International. In a letter to Sofia's Communist Rabotnitchesko Delo, Dimitrov welcomed Bulgarian troops to the side of the Red Army. Reported PM's Correspondent M. W. Fodor: "The letter has caused some uneasiness among Balkan nationals."

* U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant, Soviet Ambassador Fedor Gusev, Britain's Sir William Strang.

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