POLITICAL DEADLOCK IN BULGARIA

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24768, 8 January 1946, Page 5

POLITICAL DEADLOCK IN BULGARIA

PROPOSALS TO BROADEN GOVERNMENT. LONDON, January 6. ‘‘A deadlock exists among Bulgarian political parties over the fulfilment of the Moscow conference recommendations for broadening the basis of the Government,” says Reuter’s correspondent in Sofia. “The formal talks between the Government of the Fatherland Front and the Opposition parties, which were expected to begin last Friday, did not materialise. The Bulgarian Government rejected the Opposition’s original nominations and addressed a demand to the Opposition wings of the Agrarian and Social Democratic Parties requiring them each to appoint three-mem-ber delegations to begin discussions with the Government.

“The secretary of the Agrarian Party (Nikola Petkov) stated that the Opposition would refuse to enter the Government unless: (1) the Ministry of the Interior was taken from Communist hands; and (2) new free election's were held with separate party lists to provide the necessary party representations and reduce Communist representation to its ‘rightful proportions.’ ’’

Union Jack Torn Down.—A message from Herford. Prussia, says that ine British authorities imposed a four-day curfew from sunset to dawn on the Schleswig-Holstein village of Lunden after the Union Jack was torn down from a building occupied by British | troops.—London, January 6. .