Word: bulgarians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liaptcheff last week bounced in the back seat of his ancient, rattling limousine while his chauffeur wheeled the car down the rutty road to Sofia. Near Varna, not far from the palace, the Liaptcheff limousine swerved round a curve, slewed against the glossy high-wheeled cart of a rich Bulgarian peasant...
Prime Minister's limousine and peasant's cart plunged side by side down the road for 20 yards, the peasant sawing at his horses' mouths, shouting bristling Bulgarian obscenities in a voice like the ripping of an oak 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...
...Late Bulgarian news read by ex-Exile Radoslavoff, told how Prime Minister Liaptcheff had foiled assassins when he returned to Sofia last week, by train instead of automobile, from ceremonies at Kritschin. Detective Phileon Alexandroff, who followed with the Prime Minister's car, drove into a hail of rifle bullets near Philippopolis, was killed...
...Pictures of Princess Giovanna appeared in Sofia shopwindows. Newspapers said that a compromise had been reached with the Vatican whereby the first male child of Princess Giovanna and Tsar Boris might be educated in the Orthodox faith if the other children were Roman Catholic, and so comply with the Bulgarian Constitution which expressly states that the heir to the throne must be a member of the Bulgarian Church. The match seemed so certain in Sofia that many cafes were hastily renamed Konditorei Giovanna...