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...when something happened to most Russians, something strange happened to Alexander Alexandroff. A reticent man, six feet tall, brown-haired, who had served in the Tsar's diplomatic corps, he had wound up with a job in the foreign department of a Manhattan bank. In Russia's great year, as Kerensky gave way to Lenin, Alexander Alexandroff quit his job, moved into a small store building on Manhattan's East Side, and painted a dingy sign, "Steamship Agent," on his window...
Late Bulgarian news read by ex-Exile Radoslavoff, told how Prime Minister Liaptcheff had foiled assassins when he returned to Sofia last week, by train instead of automobile, from ceremonies at Kritschin. Detective Phileon Alexandroff, who followed with the Prime Minister's car, drove into a hail of rifle bullets near Philippopolis, was killed...
...assassination of General Gheorghieff and the Chief of the Penitentiary Department were respectively the 38th and 39th political murder which have been perpetrated since Todor Alexandroff, Macedonian leader, was assassinated last August. Alexandroff, who repudiated Moscow influence, was allegedly murdered by Communists; and, ever since, an internecine war has been waged between non-Communists and Communists...