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...Bulgarian listeners Radio Sofia broadcast a more sensational side of the trials (see above). One of the defendants was a former Regent, Prince Cyril, brother of the late Tsar Boris III, who died mysteriously after a command visit with Adolf Hitler a year and a half...
Said Radio Sofia of Prince Cyril: "At last he took the only place he deserved to have in our country-he faced a national court. He is Cyril Coburg-Gotha,* a driver, motorcyclist, adventurer, spy and son of Ferdinand [Bulgaria's World War I Tsar] ... a man who . . . calls himself a 'Bulgarian,' and the Bulgarians answer with sarcastic laughter...
...late Tsar Boris had also been interested in technology-he had a passion for driving locomotives (see cut). The People's Court learned that he had also been a mystic. Yordan Lutcheff, a royal councilor who was also on trial, reported that Boris had been a member of the secret sun-worshipping sect of Dunovists. Founded 25 years ago by a Professor Dunov, who died in Sofia last week, the sect numbers some 700 men & women. Each summer the Dunovists climb Mount Musala, Bulgaria's highest mountain, in order to be nearer the sun. They also chant hymns...
Without these clearances, the bigwigs gloomily predicted that the first cars may not roll out till as late as nine months after V-E day. Added G.M.'s Wilson: Home Front Tsar Jimmy Byrnes must have "misunderstood" the problem when he blithely predicted cars within three months after Germany quits...
Eisenstein's 16th century Tsar Ivan is portrayed differently. He is called "Ivan the Good...