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| | TIME.com: "They Lost Their Heads" -- Jan. 26, 1948 -- Page 1 |
 | | In Dimitrov's own National Assembly at Sofia, Deputy Kosta Lulchev, spokesman of the isolated little nine-man parliamentary opposition, had dared to criticize the budget as "insincere and unreal." Dimitrov gave them Red blazes: "Miserable chatterers, talking like a foreign gramophone record. |
 | | Between champagne toasts and speeches brimming with declarations of love for Soviet Russia, Pauker and Dimitrov signed, in behalf of their countries, a 20-year pact of alliance. |
 | | But coming from Georgi Dimitrov, the forecast seemed to indicate what the Kremlin had in mind. |
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