Word: coups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspicion with which Buigars regarded their new government was that few in Sofia knew what it stood for. When Lieut.-Colonel Gueorguieff and his adherents of the Zveno Club took over the government and announced a long program of objectives, it was universally understood that the smooth coup d'etat had the silent approval of Tsar Boris. Last week an equally insistent story had it that conscientious Tsar Boris threatened to abdicate when news of the coup was brought him, was persuaded to carry on by one-time Premier Mushanoff. The ousted Mushanoff Cabinet was received last week...
...several days Bulgars were at least convinced that their new government was thoroughly Fascist in manner and intent. So admitted the new Finance Minister Peter Todoroff. who wrote that the coup had been planned for six months, that the army was determined to carry out a "reconstruction of the political regime to which end all political parties must be dissolved and a new Parliament set up composed of representatives of corporations." So. too. it seemed last week when, on the Vienna model, a new burgomaster and four vice burgomasters were appointed for Sofia by government decree. But when confused newshawks...
President Kviesis and Premier Ulmanis are both members of the Farmers Union, the party of rich farmers and landowners. German Nazis uttered not a peep in Latvia last week but in Riga beer cellars the rumor persisted that the Latvian Fascist society Katsuelit was back of the present coup d'etat and back of Katsuelit was Adolf Hitler, sponsor of Das Baltikum Nazification...
...more." Soon he heard the roar of airplane engines swooping over the city. Outside officers barked commands boldly in the streets. Until the next morning the Army held Sofia and the provincial cities paralyzed. Only then did Bulgarians find out what had happened -the neatest and most peaceful coup d'etat the Balkans had ever seen...
...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...