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Then in 1918 came his triumph. He saw his little Serbia swell to five times its original size, gobble Montenegro where he was born and slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria and become the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later Jugoslavia. In 1921 old King Peter died and Alexander was King at last. Very quickly Croats and Slovenes learned who were their masters...
Alexander of Jugoslavia trusted nobody, but at least he understood his neighbors, King Carol of Rumania and little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria. For over a year, with the mounting threat of Nazi Germany and its dream of eastern expansion and the possibility of a Habsburg restoration in Austria, he attempted to arrange a meeting of all three Kings with their respective foreign ministers discreetly in the background. Always a new crisis in hectic Rumania had made the tripartite meeting impossible...
...neither to the left nor the right, but straight through the middle!" So roared Premier Gueorguieff three weeks ago after he had set up a Fascist Dictatorship following a sudden bloodless coup d'etat (TIME, May 21; June 4). Last week Through-the-Middle Gueorguieff struck straight at Bulgaria's most ancient ache, her bloodthirsty Macedonian minority, by issuing an order prohibiting private ownership of arms and munitions, and announcing that a house-to-house search would follow. Hundreds of Bulgarians did not wait; the weapons dropped mysteriously into the gutters...
...much its own way in the southern districts, collecting its own taxes, electing mayors and other local officials. Raiding parties moved on those towns last week searching for weapons. In Belitza the IMRO Mayor himself fired on the gendarmes who returned his fire and killed him. The whereabouts of Bulgaria's best known Macedonian leader, Ivan Mikhailoff, was unknown. Varying reports had him fleeing to Italy for safety or hidden away inside Bulgaria plotting revolt...
...included in its original program, was laid directly at the feet of the Gueorguieff government by the League of Nations last week. The pleasant fields of Bulgaria blush with roses from which perfume manufacturers extract essential oil, Bulgaria's best known product. Not so well known is another Bulgarian industry. League investigators of the international narcotic trade have often pointed an accusing finger at Bulgaria as one of the most important manufacturing sources of illegal opium and heroin. Last week came another League report on opium, and its charges against Bulgaria were stronger. Stuart J. Fuller...