Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rocky isle of Saint Anastasia in the Black Sea is Bulgaria's Elba. One dawn last week in Sofia, before the hordes of milch goats were out on the streets, police burst into the homes of two Bulgar would-be Napoleons, dragged them from their beds, gave them each a few minutes to dress, bundled them off to Saint Anastasia...
...were they over to heal, but the pallor of the collosus was easily forgotten at the sound of his booming voice. Even Mother France continually pumping her own financial blood into his arteries, was charmed and deceived by roars of rage and hunger. From Mongolia and Afghanistan and Bulgaria these cries came. Tomorrow at ten Professor Karpovitch will classify and interpret them in Harvard...
...Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, disarmed as was Germany by post-War treaties, the Conference agreed to "inform" all European nations of their "desires" (i. e. to rearm). As a moral lesson to Germany, the Powers intend to grant to the three disarmed nations, after "friendly negotiation," the kind of rearmament they rebuke Hitler for having "seized...
Meanwhile Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria-all bound by treaties limiting their armaments after their defeat in the World War-threatened to break faith, in imitation of Adolf Hitler. Austria, limited to 30,000 troops by the Treaty of St. Germain, plus 8,000 allowed after the assassination of Dollfuss, sought 100,000 as "absolutely essential." Turkey's pugnacious Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ("Father of the Turks") and Ghazi ("Victorious One"), is suspected of having already fortified the Dardanelles contrary to treaty, hinted that Turkey would now do so openly...
Greece had improved its economic situation (tobacco, wine, textiles, leather goods) but it was still "the poorest nation in Europe.'' Partial cause of this was the unprecedented importation of 1,400,000 indigent Greeks from Turkey and Bulgaria in exchange for deported Turks and Bulgars. Without Venizelos, Greece entered a typical Balkan shambles of dictatorships and coups d'état, with the royalists always gaining. The old split between the Balkan interests of the repopulated peninsula and the world-trading Mediterranean interests of the islands began to widen, complicated by the unreconciled Macedonians of the north. Finally...