Word: sofia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sofia His Majesty King Boris received Italian Minister Giuseppe Atenolfi, Marquis of Castelnuovo in a two-hour audience at his palace. That day rumor spread about the Balkans that Italy was now very much interested in forming an anti-Soviet Balkan peace bloc and that the Italians had just about persuaded Bulgaria, which has territorial claims on every one of her neighbors, to let bygones be bygones temporarily and join...
...which diplomats either made pilgrimages or salaamed. The Foreign Ministers of Germany, Turkey and Estonia all trotted to the Kremlin. Great Britain discussed whether she ought to send David Lloyd George there, and Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria were all on the point of dispatching top flight statesmen eastward. In Sofia, Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, than whom no crowned head is more anti-Bolshevik, wrapped up three large packages of his gold-crested cigarets with his own hands and addressed them as gifts respectively to Communist Party Secretary General Joseph Stalin, Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov and Defense Commissar Kliment Voroshilov...
Observers thought it significant that before the Kiosseivanoff train pulled out for Sofia the Bulgarian Premier and Yugoslav Foreign Minister Alexander Cinca-Markovitch issued a joint communiqué emphasizing their countries' "neutrality." Balkan newsmen smelled a Hitler-sponsored Balkan bloc arising, and believed that this Yugoslav-Bulgarian "neutrality" had the blessing of the Rome-Berlin Axis just as Rumanian and Greek "neutrality" was blessed by Britain and France. With Yugoslavia now friendly with Bulgaria, it looked as if the Balkan Entente of Turkey, Greece, Rumania and Yugoslavia, an entente aimed at Bulgaria, was about to fall apart...
...Warsaw early this week he was scheduled to go to Gdynia, the Baltic Polish port near Danzig, where he was to catch a ship for France. Onthelstanbul-Bucharest-Warsaw-Gdynia-Paris route Zog will have traveled 2,700 miles, which is 1,100 miles longer than the direct Istanbul-Sofia-Belgrade-Milan-Paris rail trip...
...Warsaw from a much publicized diplomatic swing to Ankara, Sofia and Bucharest went Vladimir Potemkin, the U.S.S.R.'s Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs. Retired Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and Colonel Beck always rubbed each other the wrong way. Colonel Beck had not talked diplomatic matters over with a Russian since 1934. But Comrade Potemkin was different...