Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...square miles and its 16.5 million people. She is the leading Communist in the band of states running from the Baltic to the Adriatic, where over 100 million people serve as Russia's shield against attack and Russia's springboard for aggression. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania are the satellites of a power which intends to make the world its satellite...
...intrigue, inspired by a gypsy prophecy, which helped make Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Czar of Bulgaria. Before his birth his mother, Princess Clementine of Bourbon-Orleans, daughter of France's Louis Philippe, consulted a gypsy fortune teller who told her that, though she had lived as the daughter of an uncrowned monarch, she would die the mother of a crowned one. Much of the rest of her life was spent shopping for a crown, and training Ferdinand to wear it. As part of that training she placed him in the Austrian hussars, where...
Ferdinand's chance came in 1887. Stefan Stambolov, Bulgaria's anti-Russian, anti-Turkish "Bismarck," looking around for a new prince, settled on Clementine's Ferdinand. Subsequently, a contemporary account records, Ferdinand, a "handsome, smiling, slender youth, perfectly corseted, lips and cheeks bravely rouged, leaving in his wake an exotic perfume, rode gallantly into Sofia amid the cheers of his devoted people." His confidence in his people's devotion was not unbounded; he kept a pistol on his desk when receiving visitors...
Thereafter he lived a quiet, secluded life in Coburg among his flowers, birds, and collection of unset precious stones. At Coburg, last week, 87-year-old Ferdinand of Bulgaria died...
Died. Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 87, ex-Czar of Bulgaria; in Coburg, Germany (see FOREIGN NEWS...