Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nations still represented last week, adjourning the Conference to "Jan. 21, 1933 at the latest" passed with the U. S., Great Britain, France, Japan and a total of 37 other nations voting "For Adjournment." Herr Nadolny voted "Against." Comrade Litvinov voted "For Disarmament: Against Adjournment!" Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Hungary, Italy and Turkey abstained from voting...
Emil Ganso has been called the artistic heir† of Jules Pascin (pronounced Pass-kin, born Pincas, first name unremembered, in Bulgaria of a Spanish-Jewish father and a Serbo-Italian mother) who slit his wrists and hanged himself on his Montmartre bedroom doorknob in 1930 (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931). Ganso was Pascin's star pupil. Pascin is still Ganso's model as an artist. Ganso paints and draws the same loose-hipped women, is partial to the same drooping, bulbous com position. Like Pascin, he makes a fetish of loyalty to his friends. Unlike Pascin, who hated...
Died. Count Chedomille Miyatovitch, 90, three times Serbian Minister to Britain; in London. In 1886, after an eight-month war, he wrote the world's shortest peace treaty: "Peace between Serbia and Bulgaria is restored...
...rested his massive jowls upon his fists and left the defense of France's plan for saving Danubia largely to the British. The plan: 1) loans to Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Hungary and Austria totaling $40.000,000 or about 65˘ to each Danubian man, woman and child; 2) exclusion of Bulgaria (Germany's ally 1914-18) from this rescue party, although Bulgaria is on the Danube and in dire straits; 3) lowering inter-Danubian tariffs by 10% to 20% all round, to stimulate trade recovery...
Loud, prompt, irate were the objections of Italy's Grandi and Germany's von Bülow. They argued that "in fairness" Bulgaria must be rescued too; they complained that, since most of the $40,000,000 would have to be loaned by France, this lending would be "political" and would extend French power down the Danube; finally they called "unworkable and impractical" the proposed inter-Danubian tariff slash...