Word: sofia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel Krastitch, Yugoslavian Military Attaché, being badly " beaten up " by three unidentified men. From Sofia, the Bulgarian Government telegraphed to the Yugoslavian Government at Belgrade its sincere regrets, stating that the deed had been executed by political scoundrels to embarrass the Government...
...Belgrade. The Government, not unmindful of Signor Benito Mussolini's successful little coup against the Greeks (TIME, Sept. 3, Oct. 1), rebuffed the apology and sent an ultimatum in two parts to Sofia...
...Demands to be accepted within 48 hours: a) The Bulgarian Government to present its excuses and regrets to the Yugo-Slav representative in Sofia; b) The Bulgarian Minister of War to express his personal regrets to the Yugo-Slav Military Attaché; c) A detachment of 250 Bulgarian soldiers with a flag to render honors before the Yugo-Slav Legation...
...worth ten millions in her own right' and ' reputed a beauty.' Fourthly, Miss Alice Muriel Astor ('five millions is not such a lot with which to model a kingdom,' said the News, ' but it would be sufficient to finance a vice crusade on Sofia's night life'). Fifthly, Mimi Brokaw, ' one of the season's debutantes,' who ' being extremely young, the idea of queening it over the Bulgarians might tickle her fancy.' Last, Miss Muriel Vanderbilt, ' an engaging little person . . . with a sense of dignity...
Direct news from Sofia confirmed the. belief (TIME, Oct. 1) that the Bulgarian Government had the reported revolution well in hand. In the space of a few days, the Army? reinforced by recruits enlisted by special permission of the Allied Military Control Commission?put down 50 Soviets established by the Communists and effectively crushed the Communist revolt. There was no truth in the report of a separate agrarian revolution nor in the rumor that hostile demonstrations had taken place against King Boris, who is said to be extremely popular with the people...