Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After reorganizing the Army and Navy, he sized up Greek military pretensions as a hollow bluff, saw that Greece's future depended on the good will of the Powers, proceeded to play the future that way. He broke with previous Greek policy by joining the Balkan League of Bulgaria and Serbia and ganging on Turkey in the first Balkan War. This time Greece won. In the squabble over the spoils, alert Venizelos formed another alliance with Serbia and ganged on Bulgaria. Spoils: most of Macedonia and the Aegean Islands, the most productive lands in the realm and 100% more...
...Bulgaria and Turkey are laying serious and singularly similar charges at each other's doors. Each accuses the other of massing troops on the Macedonian border and contemplating acquisition because of the internal turmoil in Greece. With loyal and rebel forces quite evenly matched, although the former is dominant on land and the latter is superior at sea, the probability that they both have designs on war-ridden Greece amounts almost to a certainty...
Macedonia, always a hotbed of intrigue with an indescribably mixed population, is now the storm center of the civil war. Bulgaria, deprived of a Mediterranean port after the World War, is hovering over the afflicted territory like a bird of ill-omen. Turkey, Jugoslavia, and Italy undoubtedly would not resist taking a morsel of Greece if it were dangled before their eyes. The one hope that Greece has of setting her affairs without interference and loss is to enlist British support. The British watchdog, with a sentimental interest since Byron and a commercial interest antedating that, has already growled...
Last June a politician's coup made Bulgaria a virtual dictatorship under the leadership of one-eyed, Hitler-lipped Kimon Gueorguieff whose favorite cry was "Our government is neither Right nor Left, but STRAIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE" (TIME, June 4). First reports were that this Gueorguieff dictatorship had the full approval of Little Tsar Boris. But royalists in Austria and Hungary, trying hard to recoup their own fortunes through the restoration of downy-lipped Archduke Otto, learned almost immediately that Boris was practically a prisoner of the dictatorship, that the real dictator was not Through-the-Middle-Man Gueorguieff...
...Thurns. When George V was "England's Sailor Prince" he tossed off many a Scotch & soda with Im Thurn cronies. Last week a Sofia dispatch passed by the Bulgarian censor stated flatly that when Rear Admiral Im Thurn landed he "had instructions to urge the military leaders in Bulgaria not to do anything that might lead to abandonment of the monarchist form of government...