Word: bulgarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest last week at the comfortable summer palace of Euxinograd. near Varna on the Black Sea. But even on holiday royalty has its duties, and one of them is entertaining local ladies. Seated on little gilt chairs, they sipped glasses of hot tea and munched tiny cakes, which the Bulgarian ladies found "marvelous." Her Majesty smiled amiably...
...quite improper," said he, "to call the new regime either a Fascist or a corporative state. This, first of all, is a Bulgarian government! It is adapted to the particular need of this particular country and is not patterned on any foreign model...
...Entente. But things have changed in a twelvemonth. Spurred on by the menace of Hitlerism and the threat to the Balkan "succession states"* of a possible Habsburg restoration in Austria and Hungary, Boske Jeftitch has trotted up & down the Balkan corridor trying to organ ize a separate Jugoslav-Turkish-Bulgarian entente. The advantages of such an alliance to impoverished Bulgaria were obvious, but there was just one point on which Foreign Minister Jeftitch was insistent. Jugoslavia would join no pact unless the Bulgarian Government could prove its capacity to handle the noisy Macedonian minority that has made life hideous...
...pleasant note is added by the fact that Yugoslavia is said to be massing troops on the border to prevent the ingress of the Bulgarian radicals, most of whom are said of he anti-Yugoslav. By this time, the moves in a fascist coup d'etat have become so routined that the Yugoslav variant is more than welcome...
...factors, the unrest over Macedonia, and constant party struggles, Tsankoff has for some time been urging the formation of a non-party government and a corporative parliament. The results are, of course, unpredictable, but the history of the dictatorships in Greece and Yugoslavia makes it seem unlikely that the Bulgarian experiment will be immediately successful. ZENO...