Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primer of the Balkans would begin by describing them as a backward group of peewee States (Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece) whose combined outline is wedge-shaped like South America's. Like the South American States, the Balkans have been characterized by their propensity for rapid and explosive political change, by their archaic society, which has kept the land largely primitively agricultural and industrially undeveloped. The 310,000 square miles of Balkan territory are naturally rich. Economically this territory is important to both Germany and England because it is a source of raw materials and a market for manufactured...
...Like Bulgaria's Boris (who was in London before Munich), Greece's George and Rumania's Carol, Yugoslavia's Paul has this simple situation well in mind. Like them he knows the difference between good money and bad, between hard British sterling and phony Nazi export marks. He would naturally rather sell his corn, fruit, iron and bauxite to Britain than to Germany. What probably took him to London, and what had taken Boris, Carol and George, was to see if they could induce Britain to offer more good sterling for more Balkan products. The British...
...other dignitaries of the court-had been conveniently wiped out in one night. While Crown Prince Alexander was being prepared for the kingship, Prince Paul went to Oxford. His education there was interrupted thrice by wars-by the First (Balkans v. Turkey) and Second (Serbia, Greece, Rumania, Turkey v. Bulgaria) Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913, again by the World War, which began by the Austrians invading Serbia in 1914. Each time Prince Paul went home to take an officer's commission, each time he returned to study philosophy and literature at Oxford. The Oxford degree which Paul started...
...Good Neighbor doctrine. Up to Munich its best Neighbors were Rumania and Czechoslovakia, which with Yugoslavia functioned as the French-backed Little Entente. Yugoslavia now is a key power in the four-year-old Balkan Entente- Yugoslavia, Rumania, Greece, Turkey. All these States grabbed land from Bulgaria after the Balkan and World Wars, and the one thing they have most in common is their resolve not to give any of it back. They also are resolved not to be the puppets they once were. There is safety in numbers, and they believe in fighting shy of exclusive totalitarian economic alliances...
...Hungary last week the Cabinet fell (and rose again four days later) as a result of demonstrations in Budapest by grab crazy mobs who did not think that Hungary's 4,800-square-mile grab was enough. In Sofia, Bulgaria, grab fever rose high at week's end, the 19th anniversary of the Treaty of Neuilly. Through Sofia's streets day before the anniversary milled a defiant crowd of 20,000 who demanded land back from Rumania, Yugoslavia, Greece. Martial law was declared, firemen turned their hoses on demonstrators, 1,000 were arrested. Chances are that...