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Bulgarian Relations with Greece and Yugoslavia
 
          Bulgarian foreign relations are in effect under the supervi-
sion of the Control Commission, meaning, for practical purposes, 
the Soviet authorities. Thus far we have not learned much about
these relations, but we consider certain public statements and other mani-
festations relating to Greece and Yugoslavia to be of great signi-
ficance.     
 
          The Armistice and its accompanying Protocol provide for the  
delivery of reparation and restitution goods from Bulgaria to 
Greece, but no appreciable progress has been made as yet. Two Greek 
delegations arrived in Sofia, but neither of them could show proper 
credentials or authority, and a duly accredited official representa-
tive to the Allied Control Commission has not yet been sent to Sofia, 
due probably to the political difficulties in Greece. While the 
Soviet chain of the Allied Control Commission has indicated a 
willingness to have a Greek representative at Sofia, there may well 
be opposition, on the part of the Russians, to deliveries from Bul-
garia to Greece on any such scale as the Greeks demand. Bulgarian 
relations with Greece are further complicated by the reported in-
cursions of Bulgarian irregular forces into Greek Thrace and 
Macedonia.
 
          In marked contrast to her relations with Greece, Bulgarian 
relations with Tito's National Liberation Front in Yugoslavia are 
of a most friendly nature. Thus, Bulgarian. atrocities in Serbia
appear to have been forgiven by Tito and Bulgarian measures for 
Yugoslav relief have been announced, probably resulting from direct 
Yugoslav-Bulgarian negotiations sanctioned by the Soviet authorities 
in the name of the Allied Control Commission.