Details

Subject(s)

• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• Foreign relations [Browse]
• Politics and government [Browse]
• Great Britain—Foreign relations—1906-1966—Sources [Browse]
• Bulgaria—Foreign relations [Browse]
• Bulgaria [Browse]

Related name

• Great Britain. Foreign Office [Browse]
• Coherent Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• General Correspondence from 1906-1966 (Great Britain. Foreign Office. Political Departments) ; FO371-188619. [More in this series]
• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FO371: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966 ; FO371-188619

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1961-1966: Module 2
• History Commons

Summary note

A file containing documents concerning Bulgarian foreign policy. Subjects covered in the papers include remarks on foreign affairs made by Todor Zhivkov, the Bulgarian leader, which had demonstrated a moderate tone and refrained from criticism of American policy in Vietnam or British policy in Aden -- a visit to Syria and Lebanon made by Ivan Popov, the Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, during which he had signed an agreement to establish a Bulgarian-Lebanese bank to facilitate trade with the Middle East -- and speculation amongst Westerners in Sofia that Bulgaria would make a declaration of its greater independence from the Soviet Union. Other matters discussed in the file include a press article about the conflict between bourgeois and proletarian ideologies -- conversations between Sir William Harpham, the departing British Ambassador, and Georgi Traikov, the Bulgarian head of state, about the international situation -- and the treatment of foreign affairs at the ninth congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party.

Notes

• Title from Cold War Eastern Europe Module II.
• File date: 1966.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 1996.

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