Word: kimon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele and that her husband, popular little Tsar Boris III, is inclined to be pro-Italian. A year and a half ago a Bulgarian Army clique which is strongly pro-Yugoslav and pro-French staged a coup d'état and made Colonel Kimon Gueorguieff Premier (TIME, May 21, 1934. et seq.). In April 1935 Boris found a split in the Army clique, edged it out of power and put in his present Premier, the 70-year-old botanist, Andrew Tosheff, under a semi-Fascist "authoritarian" Government. Colonel Gueorguieff's friends began...
Bold, black-bearded Great Exile Professor Alexander Tsankoff staged a successful machine-gun coup in 1923 and was virtual master of Bulgaria as Premier for the next five years. His companion in banishment, Lieut.-Colonel Kimon Gueorguieff, came in as Premier last May at the head of an Army officers' junta that promised to end political bickerings in Bulgaria. Last week these two had hardly set out before Gueorguieff adherents pulled so many potent wires that the Cabinet of Premier General Petko Zlateff collapsed, resigned. The Army clique was hopelessly split. Result: Little Tsar Boris found himself again...
Last June a politician's coup made Bulgaria a virtual dictatorship under the leadership of one-eyed, Hitler-lipped Kimon Gueorguieff whose favorite cry was "Our government is neither Right nor Left, but STRAIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE" (TIME, June 4). First reports were that this Gueorguieff dictatorship had the full approval of Little Tsar Boris. But royalists in Austria and Hungary, trying hard to recoup their own fortunes through the restoration of downy-lipped Archduke Otto, learned almost immediately that Boris was practically a prisoner of the dictatorship, that the real dictator was not Through-the-Middle-Man Gueorguieff...
...stumbled over a rifle. A little further on lay an ancient shotgun. One of the goats nibbled at a couple of hand grenades lying in the gutter. In all Bulgarian cities similar debris littered the streets, for the cautious citizenry had suddenly decided that their new Premier, one-eyed Kimon Gueorguieff, meant what he said...
...proved a highly popular habit with their subjects. In Sofia again loanna went with Boris to the gold-domed Alexander Nevski Cathedral to honor Saint Cyril who helped to invent the Cyrillic (Modified Greek) alphabet. All in a row before the cathedral stood the Cabinet of the new Premier, Kimon Gueorguieff. Crowds regarded the Cabinet coolly, but a roar like a rolling breaker followed the progress of the Tsar and his Queen from the palace to the cathedral and back again...