Word: bulgarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago the question "Who is George Dimitroff?" could have been answered with enthusiasm only by his old mother. Then German police arrested Bulgarian Dimitroff in their frantic efforts to arrest almost anyone except the Nazis who everyone believes set fire to the Reichstag (TIME. March 6, 1933. et seq.). It was assumed that innocent Communists could be browbeaten before the German Supreme Court into confessing that they had set the fire, or at least that their mouths could be stopped by execution. In stead the Supreme Court acquitted all except the half-witted Dutchman Marinus van der Lubbe. During...
...lands were for purposes of political or commercial advantage. In time the U. S. colleges, independent but banded together since 1919 in the Near East College Association, were acclaimed as brilliant beacons in the Near East march toward Western enlightenment. Said the late Alumnus Stephan Panaretoff, when he was Bulgarian Minister to the U. S.: "A single graduate of Robert College in his native town or community means more by the influence he exerts than ten college graduates here in America...
...Bulgaria, a Turkish province, was struggling for its independence; on the Turkish island of Crete, Greeks had just ended an unsuccessful three-year revolt and a curly-haired moppet named Eleutherios ("Liberty") Venizelos was just 8 years old. Dr. House learned Bulgarian, and was instrumental in arranging exchanges of Bulgarian and Turkish prisoners...
...shipping time for packages across the Balkans from weeks to hours, everything has been carried, from a coffin crammed with counterfeit banknotes to a notorious suede moneybag containing only a Moslem potentate knew what. Every threat of Balkan war, every komitadji bandit raid near the steel rails, every chronic Bulgarian earth tremor means costly problems to the trilingual Frenchmen in creased, drab uniforms who somehow always get the Orient Express through...
...eleventh day of the revolution, Venizelos' generals threw in the sponge and scuttled for the Bulgarian frontier. Their automobile stuck in the Boz snowdrifts and they crossed the frontier on foot, their baggage on their backs. Rebel General Demetrius Kamenos told newshawks: "Our efforts to overthrow the Tsaldaris regime must, at least for the moment, be abandoned...