Word: bulgaria
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...plank. Finally with his horses but not his temper under control, the farmer pulled a big, black, Balkan pistol from his waistband, punctuated his curses with bullets. Shots riddled the windshield and the rear windows of the Liaptcheff car. Only by sliding prudently to the floor did Bulgaria's Prime Minister keep his skin whole...
...Bulgaria's War-time Prime Minister, Vasil Radoslavoff, has spent the past eleven years in exile, with his son-in-law's spare bedroom at Berlin as his base. Last week Exile Radoslavoff, who fled his country when Tsar Ferdinand was forced to abdicate the Bulgarian throne in 1918, was unofficially told that he might return to Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Sobranye (Assembly) had passed the third reading of a bill pardoning those ministers who were condemned to life imprisonment by the government of Alexander Stamboulisky, spectacular peasant...
...Prime Minister Radoslavoff, always pro-German, who took Bulgaria into the War on the German side when most Bulgarians were in favor of neutrality. It was Prime Minister Radoslavoff, occasionally farsighted, who refused (he now says) to declare war on the U. S. against the earnest entreaties of temperamental General von Ludendorff...
...That attitude paid well," chuckled Dr. Radoslavoff last week. "When the victorious Balkan States wanted to divide Bulgaria among themselves at the Neuilly Peace Conference it was the United States who protested and saved Bulgaria...
...opponents [in Bulgaria] have made all kinds of false accusations, such as that I intended to put back the Tsar Ferdinand on the throne. That was not true, because Ferdinand is always able to return to Bulgaria. He vacated the throne voluntarily and was not expelled from the country...