Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then in 1918 came his triumph. He saw his little Serbia swell to five times its original size, gobble Montenegro where he was born and slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria and become the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later Jugoslavia. In 1921 old King Peter died and Alexander was King at last. Very quickly Croats and Slovenes learned who were their masters...
Alexander of Jugoslavia trusted nobody, but at least he understood his neighbors, King Carol of Rumania and little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria. For over a year, with the mounting threat of Nazi Germany and its dream of eastern expansion and the possibility of a Habsburg restoration in Austria, he attempted to arrange a meeting of all three Kings with their respective foreign ministers discreetly in the background. Always a new crisis in hectic Rumania had made the tripartite meeting impossible...
Fortnight ago Alexander of Jugoslavia, his Queen, and his Foreign Minister entrained for Tsar Boris' Bulgaria. The Rumanian Cabinet was threatening to resign (it was reconstructed almost intact), Mistress Magda Lupescu had a bad cold so King Carol could not come...
...Should Bulgaria, wartime enemy of Rumania and Jugoslavia, join their existing security pact...
...Bulgaria and Rumania have already recognized Soviet Russia. Now that Russia has joined the League, should Jugoslavia do likewise, despite the great numbers of White Russians settled in the country and King Alexander's sentimental memories of his youth as a page at the court of Nicholas II? 4) Can the three countries adopt a united front against the growing power of Benito Mussolini in the Balkans? Should tongue-in-cheek approval be given to Adolf Hitler...