Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your article on illicit traffic in narcotics in the Near East, appearing in TIME of April 3 (p. 14), would give one the impression that the Government of Bulgaria is winking at a big illicit production of opium...
When Kernel Pasha drove the illicit manufacturers out of Turkey some of them began secret operations in Bulgaria. At first the Bulgarian police, inexperienced in such things, were none too quick in detecting and suppressing the traffic. Recently, however, the Bulgarian authorities have proved themselves alert and effective in suppressing the traffic, as is indicated by the bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of State, issued Feb. 23, 1933 which says in part: "The prompt action of the Bulgarian authorities in this matter, evidence as it is of their desire to cooperate in the international effort to suppress...
...event of the failure of full disarmament, a pledge to grant gradual arms equality for Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria...
Most deplorable to Chief Russell is the government of Little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria. Poppies and roses grow well in Bulgaria. Since the forcible closing of the Turkish factories the centre of the illegal drug traffic has moved from Istanbul to Sofia. Nine narcotic factories are now operating in Bulgaria. Largest and most important is Balkans Products Co., Ltd., which opened a new factory at Radomir in October. In two months Balkans Products produced a "snow" storm of 1,500 kilograms-one and one-half tons-of heroin, all of which, according to Chief Russell, was smuggled into France...
...consider what serious moral, intellectual and even material disaster is inevitably being prepared wherever the Church is openly or covertly combatted." One sorrow the Pope mentioned was the Orthodox baptism, instead of Catholic baptism as pledged, of the daughter of Orthodox Tsar Boris and Catholic Tsaritsa loanna of Bulgaria (TIME, March 6); but he declared that the Tsaritsa was in no sense guilty, having "neither strength nor means to express her opposition...