Bulgarian Atrocity
Bulgaria, it must be assumed, has identified herself so completely with the terrorist systems of Eastern Europe that the opinion of the democratic world means nothing to her. The execution of Nicholas Petkov brands the name of Bulgaria with lasting infamy. The accusations against him of plotting against the State were a naked device to rid the Communist Government of an influential opponent ; the evidence was palpably fabricated and the trial a farce. The second article of the peace treaty with Bulgaria, just ratified, binds her to secure to all persons under her jurisdiction full political freedom. Her estimate of the value of that, and presumably of any other under- taking embodied in the treaty, is demonstrated by the political murder perpetrated on Tuesday. Bulgaria has chosen the wrong side in the two Great Wars and learned no lesson. In the country which once acclaimed the name of Gladstone a Communist tyranny prevails, and the world is left to realise once more the place judicial murder plays in a Communist-dominated State. Every day makes harder co-opera- tion between the West and a barbaric East.
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