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...assassination of General Gheorghieff and the Chief of the Penitentiary Department were respectively the 38th and 39th political murder which have been perpetrated since Todor Alexandroff, Macedonian leader, was assassinated last August. Alexandroff, who repudiated Moscow influence, was allegedly murdered by Communists; and, ever since, an internecine war has been waged between non-Communists and Communists...
...equal, to the contest which resulted in the rejection of the Versailles Treaty may be brewing. Of the old irreconcilables many are gone, never to return-Lodge, Knox, Brandegee. But some still remain. Hiram Johnson still remains, proud of being "progressive'' and "irreconcilable." Around him the Macedonian phalanx will gather. It is still to be seen whether the old phalanx has weakened, or whether its opponents have developed a defense which is capable of countering it. At any rate, it is time for War correspondents to be going over their kits preparatory to going forward whenever hostilities...
Chief of the modern Macedonians who have demanded autonomy have been Todor Alexandrov, General Protogerov, Peter Schankev. For years, this triumvirate kept the Macedonian question well before the world. A few months ago, Todor Alexandrov was murdered; and last week one Dimitri Stefanov met Peter Schankev in a cafe at Milan, fired five shots from an automatic pistol at him, killed him. The two deaths were connected by the tale which the assassin told...
Peter Schankev decided last spring that Macedonian autonomy was a dead issue, so he quitted the triumvirate to found a movement for transforming the Balkans into a confederation. When Todor Alexandrov stood in his way, the natural thing for him to do was to have Todor Alexandrov quietly murdered; this was done. Immediately Alexandrov's friends called a meeting in a Macedonian village with General Protogerov as chairman. At this meeting, sentence of death was pronounced on Peter Schankev and his executioner went out into the world on a search for his victim?a search which ended at Milan...
...Macedonian Nationalist and I love my mother country intensely. It was only to serve her that I executed this renegade. I am glad I was chosen to sacrifice myself...