874.00/10–1945: Telegram
The United States Representative in Bulgaria (Barnes) to the Secretary of State
[Received 3:48 p.m.]
612. Minister Foreign Affairs told me yesterday that he was greatly displeased with that part of General Stoichev’s recent statement in Washington to Overseas News Agency that touched on subject of future regime in Bulgaria. He said that this question is not yet before the Govt, that it will not be for some time to come and that in any event Stoichev is neither called upon nor qualified to express a view as to what decision Govt and Bulgarian people probably will take as to whether Bulgaria shall remain monarchy or become republic. He said he was so informing Stoichev and that subsequently an official statement will be made in same sense.
Repeated Moscow as No. 268.