Word: sofia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular Vienna correspondents were a revelation last week, and soon some of these correspondents will be fired. For many years they have in Vienna performed with the dexterity of long practice the service of inventing daily over coffee and whipped cream what is happening simultaneously in Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia, Athens, Bucharest, Prague and even Warsaw...
Breathless in pace and implications was the swooping Balkan air tour last week of autocratic German Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, whom closest friends call "Willy." In Vienna, Belgrade, Athens, Sofia and Budapest the Machiavellian doctor had fun insisting that he flew only to promote "economic peace." Just before he took off for Berlin, however, tactless Dr. Schacht could not resist blurting out what kind of economic peace he promotes. "Do creditor countries desire to renounce their claims against Germany?" he asked sharply. "If so they should say so, as Germany must either be allowed to earn...
...Belgrade with an order for German heavy industrial products almost huge enough to wipe out the $8,000,000 Germany owes Yugoslavia; and in Athens the swashbuckling entourage of Premier General Metaxas said talk had all been of deals involving German aircraft, artillery and four destroyers for Greece. In Sofia there was a matter of some Bulgar credits in Germany now secretly liquidated in great part by German shipments of arms to Italy for which Italy paid Bulgaria by canceling debts Bulgaria previously owed Italy; and as for the Hungarians they are now such large creditors of Germany that they...
...Norway, only surviving child of Britain's Edward VII, arrived with her tall King Haakon VII; Queen Alexandrine of Denmark with her even taller King Christian X. Sad Leopold III, widower King of the Belgians, came with his brother. Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria left his Tsarina in Sofia...
...himself. Released by the commander's son, she joined Macedonian raiders who operated over the Bulgarian border, found herself with Todor Alexandrov, most famed and mysterious of Macedonian terrorists. During a wild, cross-country flight, in a lull between battles, he became her lover. She lived in Sofia in a house that was always guarded, was trained to carry messages whose meaning she did not know, traveled as a lady of fashion on the Orient Express, lived the queer, nerve-wracking life of a professional conspirator. Slowly she came to understand that a deep sense of futility was destroying...