Office of the Historian

740.0011 EW (Peace)/8–2547: Telegram

The Acting Representative in Bulgaria (Horner) to the Secretary of State

Sofia, August 25, 1947.

741. Sobranje has just approved unanimously Cabinet decision ratify peace treaty. Foreign Minister Georgiev1 who was first speaker extolled Soviet Union and said Bulgaria through UN would seek amelioration treaty conditions imposed as result US and UK pressure. Speakers for other parties including opposition then supported ratification. In conclusion provisional president Kolarov2 reiterated Bulgaria’s intention seeking redress for alleged injustices in treaty especially refusal recognize Bulgaria’s cobelligerency, Bulgaria’s demand for Greek Thrace and reparations clause.

Horner
  1. Kimon Georgiev, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs since November 1946.↩
  2. Vasil Petkov Kolarov, Acting President of Bulgaria since 1946.↩