Word: bagrianoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Bulgaria longed to get out of the war with the longing of a dying man for life. In Sofia before an extraordinary session of Parliament Premier Ivan Bagrianoff spoke extraordinary words. What he said might be timely demagoguery, but it implied that Bulgarians wanted to hear it, and it foreshadowed the. social changes which may accompany the break of satellite states with the Nazis...
...Balkan front Adolf Hitler gave a neat illustration of his Mephistophelean trick of making politicians so indebted to him for their power that he can count on their absolute loyalty. Bulgaria's Minister of Agriculture Ivan Bagrianoff was, until last week, in a very strong position. He was popular with the peasants, who form 82% of Bulgaria's population. He was popular with King Boris, who last year dismissed a Premier, George Kiosseivanoff, at Bagrianoff's request. And he was popular with Hitler, whose outstanding protagonist in Bulgaria he was. Last week, most probably at Hitler...
...troop movements. The Bulgarian Minister to Germany, Parvan Draganoff, hurried to Sofia on one of the few trains still running. What he had in his brief case may have been a demand, not only for the passage of German troops through Bulgaria, but also for Ivan Bagrianoff's reinstatement in the Cabinet. If Bagrianoff becomes Premier or Foreign Minister of Bulgaria, Bagrianoff and Bulgaria will be Hitler...
Strong man of Bulgaria is Minister of Agriculture Ivan Bagrianoff, onetime palace companion of Boris, whom he is privileged to address with the familiar "thou." He was an officer in World War I, then turned his attention to large-scale farming on his estates near Razgrad. Grooming him to succeed scholarly Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff, the Axis called him to Berlin last week to learn the knack of dictating under orders, then on to Rome for further instructions...