Word: bulgaria
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...Spain, Chile, Belgium, Argentina, Peru, France, Mexico, Italy, Germany, Japan, Brazil and Cuba; the Ministers Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Uruguay, Switzerland, China, Sweden, Hungary, Finland, Guatemala, Colombia, Panama, Jugoslavia, Costa Rica, Holland, Bolivia, Esthonia, Lithuania, Irish Free State, Greece, Haiti, Honduras, Austria, Latvia, Egypt, Poland and Bulgaria; the Charges d'Affaires of Salvador, Persia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Paraguay, Nicaragua, San Domingo and Roumania; the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; the Secretary of State of the U. S.; the President of the U. S.; and the respective ladies-all sat down to a grand international feast...
While we have been making up our minds about President Harding's proposal, 14 other peoples have been using the Court. In four years, Albania, the British Empire, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Poland, the Serb-Croat-Slovene States, and Turkey, have had their representatives arguing before the Court. Many other states have made treaties agreeing to use it. So the situation is not that the rest of the world is hanging breathless on what the United States may do. If in previous periods the world has looked to us to set the example, that...
...recalled that the elder Madjariow had vigorously urged a pro-Ally attitude upon the Bulgarian Government up to the very moment when Bulgaria threw in her lot with the Central Powers. His son rose to political prominence early in life, and was "one of the youngest and most popular majors ever installed at Sofia...
...conversion was most opportune. It materially aided Ferdinand in securing his recognition by Russia, Turkey and the Powers as "Prince of Bulgaria." Up to that time, although Ferdinand was a nephew of Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, and a grandson of King Louis Philippe, and had been called to the Bulgarian throne by the Grand Sobranye of Bulgaria on the abdication of Prince Alexander in 1886, he was freely styled "usurper" by his enemies...
Having once conciliated the Powers, "Prince Ferdinand" speedily pushed his advantage and became "Tsar Ferdinand" when Bulgaria emerged as a completely autonomous kingdom out of the Bos-nia-Herzegovina squabbles in 1908. The Powers recognized this title in 1909, and Ferdinand built up his country, which he styled "Mon Oeuvre," by tireless devotion to public works and by obtaining the annexation to Bulgaria of a part of Thrace in 1913. On Oct. 3, 1918, Tsar Ferdinand was forced by the victorious Allies to abdicate in favor of the present Tsar Boris. He has led a superficially retired existence since then...