Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neither to the left nor the right, but straight through the middle!" So roared Premier Gueorguieff three weeks ago after he had set up a Fascist Dictatorship following a sudden bloodless coup d'etat (TIME, May 21; June 4). Last week Through-the-Middle Gueorguieff struck straight at Bulgaria's most ancient ache, her bloodthirsty Macedonian minority, by issuing an order prohibiting private ownership of arms and munitions, and announcing that a house-to-house search would follow. Hundreds of Bulgarians did not wait; the weapons dropped mysteriously into the gutters...
...much its own way in the southern districts, collecting its own taxes, electing mayors and other local officials. Raiding parties moved on those towns last week searching for weapons. In Belitza the IMRO Mayor himself fired on the gendarmes who returned his fire and killed him. The whereabouts of Bulgaria's best known Macedonian leader, Ivan Mikhailoff, was unknown. Varying reports had him fleeing to Italy for safety or hidden away inside Bulgaria plotting revolt...
...included in its original program, was laid directly at the feet of the Gueorguieff government by the League of Nations last week. The pleasant fields of Bulgaria blush with roses from which perfume manufacturers extract essential oil, Bulgaria's best known product. Not so well known is another Bulgarian industry. League investigators of the international narcotic trade have often pointed an accusing finger at Bulgaria as one of the most important manufacturing sources of illegal opium and heroin. Last week came another League report on opium, and its charges against Bulgaria were stronger. Stuart J. Fuller...
...creation of new sources of revenue. 4) Easier credit for farmers and artisans. 5) Lower prices and new markets. 6) Unemployment relief and restriction of child labor. 7) More education for the education-hungry Bulgarians. 8) Shorter and cheaper trials. 9) Recognition of Soviet Russia. 10) Redivision of Bulgaria into seven districts instead of 16 provinces. 11) A Parliament of 175 instead of 274 members, to be appointed by the Government and Fascist guilds...
...steady year-by-year increases. He went further: he traced from the early days of the century the curious fashion in which French governmental loans insisted on relating themselves to Schneider Creusot orders. Throughout these years France had made loans to Mexico, Greece, Japan, Russia, Spain, Italy, Rumania, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Turkey, and every one of these countries had., thereupon placed armament orders with Schelder-Creusot. The last two countries had, in fact, pushed the return compliment as far as turning French guns, so bought, upon French troops at the outbreak of the war. Almost inevitably. M. Faure pointed...