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...GEORGE MIHAILOFF...
...possible dangers of Balkan partitioning. On a tour of the Albanian battlefields went Italy's and Albania's little 71-year-old King Vittorio Emanuele III. While he was motoring toward the Tirana airport with Albanian Premier Shefket Verlaci, a 19-year-old Greek named Vasil Laci Mihailoff fired four wild pistol shots at the King's car. On Mihailoff's person the police later found "futuristic poems" dealing with "love and hatred among farm animals." The Italians promptly dubbed Mihailoff a "poetic maniac" and further claimed that his target had been not the King...
...which the announcement sent rumbling across cafe tables, the one soonest forgotten was unfortunate Journalist Pundeff whose murder was being officially investigated. Every Bulgar realized that Pundeff was a mere symbol. The real battle was between Professor Alexander Tsankoff, Minister of Instruction, onetime Prime Minister (1923-26), and Ivan Mihailoff, leader of the dreaded Imro...
...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 that he alone was responsible for the death of General Protogeroff, that not a Bulgarian official dared do a thing about...
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...