Word: bogdan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More Than Ulcers. At 6:05 one evening last week, Bulgaria's Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff arrived back in Sofia after five days in Vienna. To newspapermen he said curtly: "Reports circulated in America concerning my visit to Germany are not true." He had really been to see his doctor, nothing more...
Something more crucial than Bogdan Filoff's stomach ulcers was discussed in those feverish sessions. That something could only have been one thing: whether or not to grant Germany troop transit through Bulgaria or at least use of air bases in Bulgaria, so that the big end of the Rome-Berlin Axis could get the little end out of its Grecian swivet. The Bulgars' decision might make no immediate difference whatsoever: the Germans could undoubtedly penetrate Bulgaria whether the Bulgars wished it or not. But the ramifications of the decision might have heavy bearing on the outcome...
SOFIA--Premier Bogdan Filoff said today that the war threatens to envelop the entire world as result of President Roosevelt's pledge of all-out aid to Britain...
...Hohenzollern relatives, had told Adolf Hitler at Berlin that, rather than see German troops in his peasant kingdom, he would abdicate. Last Week he retired 27 high Army officers who had demanded that Bulgaria join the Axis and, in a stormy session of the Sobranje, Premier Bogdan Filoff silenced pro-Nazi deputies with a defiant "No foreign regimes for Bulgaria." With the arrival of the first Nazi units at the frontier, Bulgarian resolution seemed less firm, and foreign observers believed that under pressure the Government might concede the "futility" of armed resistance. Significantly enough, the Bulgarian Army was reported concentrated...
...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...