Show U. U S. S Plans Further e Steps In Behalf of Bulgarian V WASHINGTON Aug 26 OF UP JP The United States despite a R Rus Russian s- s sian rebuff pla plans further action in b behalf half of Nikola top ranking Bulgarian antIcommunist leader 8 sentenced to be hanged TIle The state department made this plain Tuesday In publishing i both oth tho the text of an American appeal t to Moscow for a consultation on the trial and death sentence sen sen sentence tence and the Soviet rejection Asked at a a. news conference nce whether the direct plea to Russia exhausted American efforts to save Bulgarian opposition leader Lincoln White state stale department press of officer ticer replied with a a crisp No indeed He declined to indicate indi indi- indicate cate specific steps step that may be undertaken Publication of the texts of the exchange with Moscow disclose that the Soviet government advised advised ad it has full respect and confidence confidence con con- coni i in the Bulgarian court hurt which doomed Aug 16 Reject British In L London a foreign of office lice official official cial said Russia also alo had rejected a n. British appeal for tor consultation on the sentence on the grounds that t it would constitute interference in internal Bulgarian affairs The state department had ad termed trial blat and conviction conviction conviction tion on charges of be plotting were an apparent gross miscarriage of justice The American note delivered In Moscow Saturday said execution of ov will jeopardize the establishment of ot a representative I democratic government in Bulgaria Bulgaria Bul Bul- garia as as agreed upon by t the e allied po powers ers at the 1945 Yalta confer confer- ence The United States the note said cannot accept the ruling by Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian Lt LL Gen Alexa Alexander Cherepanov cpa cpa- nov that the allied control commission com com- commIssion commission com com- mission at Sofia of ot which he Is deputy chairman had no right to intervene with Bulgaria Asks Consultations The United States asked immediate immediate im Im- im- im mediate top level consultations among the big three powers powers Rus Rus Russia sia sla Britain and nd the United States and and expressed hope Russia would advise the Bulgarians to suspend the sentence in the meantime mean mean- time The Soviet reply made by Deputy Deputy Deputy Dep Dep- uty Foreign Minister Andrei Y was brusk and nega nega- tive It said the control commission commission commission commis commis- sion In Bulgaria has no right to review judicial matters decided by bya a Bulgarian court or to give the Bulgarian government any directive directives lives tives s whatsoever in such auch matters |