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Boske Jeftitch is Foreign Minister of Jugoslavia. Even a year ago his presence in Bulgaria would have caused riots, for Jugoslavia is part of the French-inspired Little 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...
...What has happened is simply that Mussolini has seen that this is the opportunity of a lifetime to institute a defensive alliance with Austria and Hungary, that will counterbalance the French bloc formed by the Little Entente. Moreover, this alliance can later be extended to include Turkey and Bulgaria, two powers which can naturally be counted upon to oppose the hogemony of the Little Entente in central and southern Europe. This has long been a project close to the heart of Mussolini, faced as he is by the overwhelming strength of France and her allies; but he has hitherto been...
Tsar Boris of Bulgaria...
...last week that the "Death List" of prominent Rumanians marked for assassination by the 200 terrorists of the Iron Guard was headed by M. Titulescu with Premier Tatarescu about half way down. It was a terrible time for Rumania to have to receive a foreign monarch. Yet undaunted from Bulgaria came brisk little Tsar Boris and Tsaritza Ioanna who is a daughter of the King of Italy. What if they should be assassinated...
...Tsar has a way with him. In Bulgaria he drives his own car unguarded about the countryside, chats with peasants who find him far more democratic than most Bulgarian owners of automobiles. Arriving in Rumania last week the Tsar of the Bulgars created a sensation by strolling up and down the platform, gossiping with country folk when his special train halted at a small village. "King Carol never does that," frowned a Rumanian official. "It was an act, one might say, almost undiplomatic...