Word: imro
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...most compelling writer I have read. You literally force me to read about things I don't want to know. Once I start on an issue of TIME, I cannot let go a syllable. What the devil do I care about the IMRO in Bulgaria? or about Fascist Hitler? or the scandals of New York? Yet I actually smack my lips after reading what you have to say about...
Like every other Balkan state, Bulgaria is riddled with racial minorities. Some 50 years ago the Macedonians of southwestern Bulgaria organized, to press their claims for independence, a society known as the Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Organization-Imro. Potent as Calabria's oldtime Mafia is the Imro. For years its members have murdered and bombed their opponents; seldom has a Bulgar dared appear against them...
...secret societies. Across his forehead is a jagged white scar, received during his Prime Ministry when a Bolshevist bomb, intended to wipe out him and his entire cabinet, burst and killed 200 Sofia citizens. Yet his dearest friend, a General Protogeroff, was a leader of one branch of the Imro. Converted by his friend. General Protogeroff publicly announced that he had abandoned violence as a policy, would limit himself to peaceful propaganda. Soon General Protogeroff was shot down as a lily-livered weakling. Left in sole command of the Imro was the sinister gunman Ivan Mihailoff who has publicly boasted...
Professor Tsankoff dared. Protected by a bodyguard of detectives he has worked ceaselessly for months gathering evidence against the Imro. In May the tide began to turn in his favor. He entered the Cabinet of grey-bearded Prime Minister Andrei Liaptcheff. Imro's Ivan Mihailoff prudently disappeared from Sofia, some say to Italy. Last week Minister Tsankoff persuaded his colleagues in the Cabinet that it was safe to move openly against the Imro. Bulgarians waited breathlessly for the next move, Mihailoffs retaliation...
From Poland last week came news of another terrorist organization, replica of the Imro, known as the Umo or Ukrainian Military Organization under the command of a Col. Konovalec. In the past few years the Umo has attempted to murder Poland's Dictator, Marshal Josef Pilsudski; Poland's second President, Jan Wojciechowski; the Minister of Commerce and Industry Eugene Kwiatkowski; has succeeded in murdering a State official, one Sobinski. Last week the Umo added to its reputation by burning a Franciscan convent and 60 farms...