Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty King Boris received Italian Minister Giuseppe Atenolfi, Marquis of Castelnuovo in a two-hour audience at his palace. That day rumor spread about the Balkans that Italy was now very much interested in forming an anti-Soviet Balkan peace bloc and that the Italians had just about persuaded Bulgaria, which has territorial claims on every one of her neighbors, to let bygones be bygones temporarily and join...
According to Havas, Stalin also outlined to the Politburo on Aug. 19 the coming Soviet seizure of part of Poland and expansion in the Baltic, to be later followed if possible by taking Bessarabia from Rumania, establishing a Soviet zone of influence in Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria and finally attempting to drive a Russian corridor to the Adriatic...
...Bulgaria we are tied by friendship and by the injustice of the treaties...
...children figured largely in her scheme to gain more power. One daughter (Marie) she married to Yugoslavia; another (Elizabeth) to Greece. She hoped that a third (Ileana) would marry Bulgaria, but King Boris did not press his suit when it was gossiped about that Ileana was Prince Stirbey's, and not King Ferdinand's, daughter. Through her daughters Queen Marie hoped to exert powerful influence throughout the Balkans; through her eldest son she planned on ruling Rumania...
...Freshly-manned, Italy turned at once to the Balkans: conversations led to an exchange of warm letters with Greece, notes which had the actual effect of a pact of friendship. Thus Italy took step No. 1 in the widely heralded effort to dominate the Balkans. Next step: talk with Bulgaria. This week Premier Mussolini's conference with his new Under Secretary of War, General Ubaldo Soddu, embraced "certain instructions to prepare and to enlarge" the Army...