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Post-Armistice problems of occupation and control of Bulgaria; setting up of Allied (Soviet) Control Commission; application to Bulgaria of the Crimea Declaration on Liberated Europe and of the Berlin (Potsdam) Declaration of August 2, 1945 123

1. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1944, vol. iii, pp. 481–514.

2. Signed at Yalta, February 11, 1945, by President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Marshal Stalin; for text see Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945, pp. 968, 971.

3. See communiqué issued by the Berlin Conference, Foreign Relations, The Conference of Berlin (The Potsdam Conference), 1945, vol. ii, p. 1499. For additional documentation relating to Bulgaria, see ibid., vol. i, Index, pp. 1060–1061; vol. ii, Index, pp. 1606–1607.

[150] The Acting Secretary of State to the United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes)

Washington, March 1, 1945—4 p.m.

671.7431/3–145: Telegram

[151] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, March 2, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received March 3—1:35 p.m.]

874.00/3–245: Telegram

[152] The Acting Secretary of State to the United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes)

Washington, March 3, 1945—6 p.m.

740.0011 E.W./3–345: Telegram

[153] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, March 6, 1945—4 p.m.
[Received 4:45 p.m.]

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/3–645: Telegram

[154] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, March 7, 1945—3 p.m.
[Received March 7—1:05 p.m.]

874.00/3–745: Telegram

[155] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, March 9, 1945—6 p.m.
[Received March 9—3:18 p.m.]

874.00/3–945: Telegram

[156] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, March 9, 1945—6 p.m.
[Received March 10—2:35 p.m.]

874.00/3–945: Telegram

[157] The Acting Secretary of State to the United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes)

Washington, March 10, 1945—7 p.m.

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/2–2745: Telegram

[158] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, March 13, 1945—9 p.m.
[Received March 14—3:50 p.m.]

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/3–1345: Telegram

[159] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, March 14, 1945—9 a.m.
[Received 2:30 p.m.]

874.00/3–1445: Telegram

[160] The British Embassy to the Department of State

Washington , March 14, 1945.

874.00/3–1445

[161] The Acting Secretary of State to the United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes)

Washington, March 19, 1945—midnight.

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/3–645: Telegram

[162] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, March 21, 1945—4 p.m.
[Received 4:55 p.m.]

874.00/3–2145: Telegram

[163] The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, March 23, 1945—10 a.m.
[Received 11:40 a.m.]

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/3–2345: Telegram

[164] The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)

Washington, March 23, 1945—10 p.m.

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/2–2645: Telegram

[165] The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)

Washington, March 29, 1945—8 p.m.

874.00/3–2945: Telegram

[166] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, April 3, 1945—noon.
[Received 2:53 p.m.]

874.50/4–345: Telegram

[167] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, April 5, 1945—9 a.m.
[Received 11:43 a.m.]

874.00/4–545: Telegram

[168] The Ambassador in Greece (MacVeagh) to the Secretary of State

Athens, April 5, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received April 6—7:25 a.m.]

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/4–545: Telegram

[169] The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, April 5, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received April 6—8:40 a.m.]

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/4–545: Telegram

[170] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, April 5, 1945—5 p.m.
[Received 5:38 p.m.]

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/4–545: Telegram

[171] The War Department to the Department of State

Washington, 7 April 1945.

711.74114A/4–745

[172] The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State

London, April 13, 1945—1 p.m.
[Received 10 p.m.]

874.00/4–1345: Telegram

[173] The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, April 15, 1945—midnight.
[Received April 16—12:20 p.m.]

874.00/4–1545: Telegram

[174] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, April 16, 1945, 11 p.m. [a.m.]
[Received 5:05 p.m.]

740.00119 Control (Bulgaria)/4–1645: Telegram

[175] The Secretary of State to the United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes)

Washington, April 16, 1945—6 p.m.

840.51 FC 74/4–1645: Telegram

[176] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, April 17, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received 3:28 p.m.]

874.00/4–1745: Telegram

[177] The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, April 19, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received 2 p.m.]

740.00119 Control Bulgaria/4–1945: Telegram

[178] The Ambassador in Greece (MacVeagh) to the Secretary of State

Athens, April 19, 1945.
[Received May 2.]

740.00119 Control Bulgaria/4–1945