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...Kimon Gueorguieff resigned in protest as Minister of Railways in a politicians' Cabinet. Mild, bespectacled Colonel Gueorguieff and his Zveno friends did not like politicians. Loyal to popular, brave King Boris, they told him some time ago that they wanted to take the Government away from Premier Nicholas Mushanoff. Trying to be neutral toward the politics of his country, Boris tush-tushed them...
Last week when Premier Mushanoff's Cabinet fell and he was told to form another, the Zveno boys got busy. While Sofia slept, the officers of the city garrison reported at barracks for orders. By companies the Army marched softly into the streets, occupied public squares, politicians' homes, power houses, telephone and telegraph offices and the railway stations. Premier Mushanoff tried to get a telephone number, shouted impatiently into the mouthpiece: "Premier Mushanoff speaking here!" A mysterious voice replied: "You're not Premier any more." Soon he heard the roar of airplane engines swooping over the city...
...there was just one point on which Foreign Minister Jeftitch was insistent. Jugoslavia would join no pact unless the Bulgarian Government could prove its capacity to handle the noisy Macedonian minority that has made life hideous and uncertain in Sofia for many a year. On his honor, Premier Nicholas Mushanoff swore that Bulgarian Macedonians have been as mild as lambs since last June, though up to that time Bulgarian papers reported a Macedonian murder nearly every day. Last major operation was in December 1932, when a party of Macedonians, complete with rifles, pistols, bombs and bird dogs, went fowling...