Foreign Commissar Molotov walked in briskly at six minutes past eight. He sat down and spread out a typewritten paper. To Moscow's 40-odd foreign correspondents he said: "I should like to inform you gentlemen of the decisions taken with regard to the Government of Bulgaria."
The Foreign Commissar looked tired. He read in a voice without expression: "For more than three years Bulgaria has been in effect helping Germany in its war against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Government took account of the fact that, being a small country. . . ."
Slight, blond, horn-rimmed Interpreter Pavlov, who translated for...