Word: sofia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small child in slippers drove a tinkling herd of milk goats through the streets of Sofia at dawn last week and stumbled over a rifle. A little further on lay an ancient shotgun. One of the goats nibbled at a couple of hand grenades lying in the gutter. In all Bulgarian cities similar debris littered the streets, for the cautious citizenry had suddenly decided that their new Premier, one-eyed Kimon Gueorguieff, meant what he said...
Frequently attacked and suppressed in Sofia, the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization has had things very much its own way in the southern districts, collecting its own taxes, electing mayors and other local officials. Raiding parties moved on those towns last week searching for weapons. In Belitza the IMRO Mayor himself fired on the gendarmes who returned his fire and killed him. The whereabouts of Bulgaria's best known Macedonian leader, Ivan Mikhailoff, was unknown. Varying reports had him fleeing to Italy for safety or hidden away inside Bulgaria plotting revolt...
Home cooking is not entirely a lark for Tsar Boris and Tsaritsa loanna, most impoverished of European royalties. At all events it has proved a highly popular habit with their subjects. In Sofia again loanna went with Boris to the gold-domed Alexander Nevski Cathedral to honor Saint Cyril who helped to invent the Cyrillic (Modified Greek) alphabet. All in a row before the cathedral stood the Cabinet of the new Premier, Kimon Gueorguieff. Crowds regarded the Cabinet coolly, but a roar like a rolling breaker followed the progress of the Tsar and his Queen from the palace...
Part of the suspicion with which Buigars regarded their new government was that few in Sofia knew what it stood for. When Lieut.-Colonel Gueorguieff and his adherents of the Zveno Club took over the government and announced a long program of objectives, it was universally understood that the smooth coup d'etat had the silent approval of Tsar Boris. Last week an equally insistent story had it that conscientious Tsar Boris threatened to abdicate when news of the coup was brought him, was persuaded to carry on by one-time Premier Mushanoff. The ousted Mushanoff Cabinet was received...
...carry out a "reconstruction of the political regime to which end all political parties must be dissolved and a new Parliament set up composed of representatives of corporations." So. too. it seemed last week when, on the Vienna model, a new burgomaster and four vice burgomasters were appointed for Sofia by government decree. But when confused newshawks called on Premier Gueorguieff he rolled his one eye at them and swore that there was nothing Fascist about his new government, that in fact political elections would soon be held...