Bulgaria Closes Turkish Frontier

Northern Advocate, 7 March 1947, Page 5

Bulgaria Closes Turkish Frontier

<ll a.m.) ISTANBUL. March 6. Bulgaria has closed its frontier with Turkey. Observers believe that Bulgaria will take the same action with its borders with Greece. Rumania and Yugoslavia. Diplomatic sources said the closure would last 10 days. Most people believe the closure :s to cover either Russian or Bulgarian troop movements. Goods trains are crossing the frontier, but passenger trains are running empty.

GOOD COMPROMISER ’ The special correspondent of the New Zealand Press Association quotes the Moscow correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, Alexander Werth, as saying that the chief reason for M. Stalin’s resignation from the position of Minister of the Armed Forces is that it will enable lirm to devote more time to foreign affairs, which is undoubtedly regarded as Russia's number one problem. * “This is probably an encouraging move, for M. Stalin has shown a distinct disposition to pour oil on troubled waters,” says the Manchester Guardian's correspondent. “The official Russian attitude to the Moscow conference is that it must succeed even if it lasts a very long time. This inevitably means compromise and M. Stalin is good at compromise.” The correspondent says it has been decided to hold the Foreign Ministers’ meeting in a large club building about two miles from the centre of the city instead of in the Russian Foreign Office mansion as previously reported.