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    "ocrText": "-5-\nmatters affecting the peace and security of the world, the\nSoviet Union had been willing to join the family of nations\nin a truly cooperative enterprise. 17\nIII. EUROPE\nBulgaria: US Rejects Charge of Subversion. -- In a state-\nment issued to the press on December 1, the Department of State\nreferred to the Bulgarian charge that the. efforts made by its\nformer Vice Premier Traicho Kostov to overthrow his government\nwere carried forward on the basis of an understanding with the\nUS Minister to Bulgaria, Donald R. Heath. The Department char-\nacterized the charge as a \"fanciful tale. 11 This crude attempt,\nthe statement continued, \"to accuse the United States Government\nand its official representative in Bulgaria of being involved in\nclandestine efforts to overthrow the Bulgarian Government follows\nthe pattern of the Rajk trial in Hungary and similar travesties\nof the judicial process held elsewhere in Communist countries. 118\nBulgaria: US Issues Sharp Rebuke. -- On December 12, Un-\nder Secretary of State James E. Webb notified the Bulgarian\n\"INATIONAL\nARCHIVÉS AND\nChargé d'Affaires, Dr. Peter Voutov, that the US Government\nSERVICE\"\n\"cannot ignore\" the \"unwarranted and unfriendly\" series of\"in-\ndignities and restrictions\" imposed on the US Legation at Sofia,\nwhich culminated in the Bulgarian press attacks upon US Minister\nDonald R. Heath and the Department of State. The allegations\nagainst Mr. Heath and statements attributed to him, Mr. Webb\nsaid, were \"patently falsehoods which the Bulgarian Government\ncould and had a duty to correct.\" Instead, the Bulgarian Gov-\nernment permitted the publication of \"scurrilous articles\" accus-\ning the American Government of engaging in espionage and sub-\nversive activity through official representatives, Dr. Voutov\nwas informed that the US Government \"takes a serious view of\nsuch deliberate actions which must inevitably affect relations\nbetween the two countries. 119\nHungary: US Denounces Arbitrary Arrest and Bars Travel. --\nThe US Government again accused Communist-.dominated Hungary of\nviolating elemental human rights and decency in secretly arrest-\ning and detaining incommunicado an American citizen, Robert A.\nVogeler, Eastern European representative of the International\nTelephone and Telegraph Corporation, who disappeared on Nov-\nember 18 while driving an automobile from Budapest to Vienna.\n7\nBulletin, Dec. 19, pp. 932-933.\n8\nPress release 941, Dec. 1.\n9\nPress release 969, Dec. 12."
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