Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Small though the likelihood is that such a short-sighted view should ever be forced upon British statesmen-who know the strategic value of the land of Palestine quite apart from that of the people-the issue of whether a great deal more money should be spent at once to...
Returning from a weighty conference at the summer palace of Little Tsar Boris, frugal Prime Minister Andrei Liaptcheff last week bounced in the back seat of his ancient, rattling limousine while his chauffeur wheeled the car down the rutty road to Sofia. Near Varna, not far from the palace, the...
Prime Minister's limousine and peasant's cart plunged side by side down the road for 20 yards, the peasant sawing at his horses' mouths, shouting bristling Bulgarian obscenities in a voice like the ripping of an oak plank. Finally with his horses but not his temper...
"Miserable dog!" screamed Minister Liaptcheff's chauffeur as the fusillade ended. "You will hang for this! You have fired on the Prime Minister of Bulgaria!"
In Sofia Minister Liaptcheff learned that his assailant had been arrested. He pondered a while, then sent this message: "I can understand the man's anger. It was largely my fault. ... I refuse to prosecute."*