Trajčo Kostov [Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party]: The court is not progressing fully satisfactorily. It is true that there are objective reasons for this: this is the first time that we have had a People’s Court and there was not enough time to prepare properly…. As a result, the preliminary investigations have been carried out inappropriately, with too few confessions and other materials that could support the accusations; the prosecutors themselves were not able to study the materials…. [The trial] should not stretch on and drag out until it exasperates everyone…. [T]he examination of wit-nesses will have to be accelerated…. There is too liberal behavior, especially on the part of the chief justice of the first chamber [Bodgan Šulev], toward the defendants…. If the prosecutor does not behave as he should, the chief justice should signal that to him…. The description of the trial proceedings in the newspapers will be improved. The journalists have been advised not to distract people’s attention by emphasizing the sensational aspects, but rather to emphasize the work of aiming to politically unmask [the defendants].