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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Sofia came rumors of a general Balkan moratorium. Premier N. Muchanoff of Bulgaria blurted out that his country must default on its debts if it did not receive more money from the League of Nations (Bulgaria owes the U. S. some $27,000,000). Greece had already made such an announcement. Two days later Premier Muchanoff thought better, denied that he had "said anything concrete on the subject." Harried Albania set up not one but five separate commissions to think of ways of raising more money. Rumania's Finance Minister, Constantine Argetoianu, was in Paris, begging. Spectacled King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: State of Europe | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

Year ago when that gruff old Bulgarian elder statesman Nicholas Muchanoff set out on a secret mission to Rome (TIME, Feb. 4, 1929), the Italian and Greek ministers plenipotentiary at Sofia laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Betting on the Tsar | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

Surer still looked the thing a few weeks later when Elder Statesman Nicholas Muchanoff, who might have been expected to make the legal aspects of the match, was followed to Rome by dashing General Ivan Wolkoff, close intimate of Tsar Boris, a cavalier well able to achieve the amorous aspect of a monarch's suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Betting on the Tsar | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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