THIS INCIDENT was widely talked of in Sofia. So much
so that a greatly exaggerated version of the story was finally printed in the Communist Narodna Kulittra, with imaginary names for the authors who had given greatest offence. Those concerned are naturally in great disfavour, but as far as is known they have not been arrested. The moral, according to Narodna Kultura, is that some writers are not as keen on the regime as they ought to be. But a much more important moral seems to me to be this : the regime so lacks genuine stability and real roots in the country that even some of the most intelligent of its subjects are quite prepared to believe that it has collapsed overnight, even in the rather unlikely circumstances set forth by the imaginary announcer. They are, I suppose, in a good position to judge.
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