Word: bulgaria
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...idyllic summer day. Citizens sat in the cafes as if nothing had happened since King Boris married his Italian princess four years ago. But all had changed since two nights before when Fascist army officers seized the Government, booted out all elected politicians, jailed 800 and foisted Fascism on Bulgaria...
...creation of new sources of revenue. 4) Easier credit for farmers and artisans. 5) Lower prices and new markets. 6) Unemployment relief and restriction of child labor. 7) More education for the education-hungry Bulgarians. 8) Shorter and cheaper trials. 9) Recognition of Soviet Russia. 10) Redivision of Bulgaria into seven districts instead of 16 provinces. 11) A Parliament of 175 instead of 274 members, to be appointed by the Government and Fascist guilds...
...steady year-by-year increases. He went further: he traced from the early days of the century the curious fashion in which French governmental loans insisted on relating themselves to Schneider Creusot orders. Throughout these years France had made loans to Mexico, Greece, Japan, Russia, Spain, Italy, Rumania, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Turkey, and every one of these countries had., thereupon placed armament orders with Schelder-Creusot. The last two countries had, in fact, pushed the return compliment as far as turning French guns, so bought, upon French troops at the outbreak of the war. Almost inevitably. M. Faure pointed...
Political hormones seem to be flowing freely this spring, and the results are almost as startling in the corpus politicus as in the corpus biologicus. One notes that Bulgaria is attempting the noble experiment of fascism. Under the tender ministrations of Tsankoff, whose government in 1923 executed Stambolisky, the Agrarian dictator, the king's conscience has been stirred. Abandoning the neutrality which he has maintained for many years, Boris has consented to dissolve parliament and replace the present cabinet with an "authoritarian" government. Successful declaration of martial law has been followed by the usual arrests of Socialist and Communist leaders...
...present action is, of course, directly the outcome of the recent history of Bulgaria. With the close of the war, Bulgaria, who had joined the Central Powers, received the terms of her punishment in the Treaty of Neuilly. Since she had lost much in the settlements closing the Balkan Wars, there was not much that could be lost territorially. Possibly the severest blow was the loss of her Aegean coast-line, with economic as well as political consequences. Never a wealthy state at any time, by the war and the peace treaty, Bulgaria was reduced in power, population, area...