Evening star., 1925-04-23
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

tron. have jealousy guarded the
rights of the rural and urban COM
munes, the smallest of administra
tive units, which enjoy large
amount of autonomy and own about
a quarter of the land. These com
munities are progressive institutions
and reflect the Bulgarian passion for
education"
1t is declared that since her liber
alton Bulgaria has made greater
progress than has any other Balkan
state, and has thereby aroused jeal-
ousy of all her neighbors, making her
the -'biacf- sheep of the Balkans.
bulgaria is now in more friend
less and hopeless position, - writes
Leland Buxton, than any other OF
the states who were lately our enc
miles, In France, the chief enemy of
Germany, there is a strong minority,
which may soon become a majority,
in favor of a policy of conciliation
toward the beaten foe. In Greece, the
chief enemy of Bulgaria, there is no
such party, and it will be long before
the Greeks reach the stage Of civili-
zation at which a conciliatory move
ment becomes important land wide
spread as it is today in Great Brit
ain, France and Italy; and whereas in
Western Europe racial antagonlsm IS
rapidly giving way TO class antago-
nism, in the Balkans it may be a cen
tury before this takes place. Bulga-
ria, moreover, can hope for very little
consideration from the League of Ma
l7tions. y.
-a The writer enlarges. upon, the gulf
between the League of Nations and
Bulgaria. fact which, together with
Bulgaria's own communistic habits
tributing influences driving the
masses toward Soviet Russia rather
than toward Western alliances. I'm
der the terms of, the Versailles treaty,
Bulgaria, an enemy Of the allies dur
ing the World War, was the only
state in the Balkans which was linn
tied in its army. She is, therefore, at
the mercy of the League of Nations,
or the powers controlling the league,
for her self-defense, and today she is
pleading for permission to increase
her army by 5000 in view of the dis
orders within her domain. That those
| disorders may be enhanced by the in
terestS of her neighbors-Macedon
Greece. Serbia and Rumania. Turkey
in-Europe well as by bolshevik
| Russia, is an argument which the
league will consider.
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The leaders of the two parties in
opposition to the government have
| issued declarations which are signifi-
| cant. Pashukoff, a Socialist, says;
''The plan was not solely directed
against the present government, but
against all Bulgarian authorities. who
were to be disorganized and annihi-
| lated in order to facilitate a proclama-
| ton of a Soviet republic or a state of
| affairs leading to it. The
| isolation of Bulgaria and hostility of
| European opinion toward Bulgaria
contribute greatly to tempting Bull
| garians to support efforts al Moscow
| to create new state of affairs in the
Balkans. If European democracy and
| public opinion would lend their aid TO
Bulgaria, great good would be done
and props which support bolshevism
! would gradually fall away"
Malinoff, leader of the Democrats,
! says:
The cathedral outrage was not an
| isolated criminal act. One
/ sees there is an organization directing
| these attacks with the object of pro-
voking revolution. All good
Bulgarian patriots will assist the gov
ernment in the task of safeguarding
| the. country and conquering all assail-
\ ants wherever they come from. There
| can. be no surrender because, however
| strong the struggle is between the
| different parties. they will unite to
defend the country"
r =
| In the light oflthe .indisputable dis
| closure of the bolshevik part in the
Bulgarian outrage, it is significant to
read the following dispatch from Lon
| don to the New York Times, concern
| ing the United States:
! . THE. international Workers Relief
as weu las the Friends of Russia So
ciety, in the United States; the Miners
Relief, the international Glass War
1 Prisoners Aid. and several other or
!, ganizations,- are nothing else but
branches of the Mopr Society for the
relief of distressed revolutionaries
abroad. which is a section of the Third
| Internationale in Moscow.
/ ~"The, International Trade Union
Federation in Amsterdam has publicly
| proclaimed, that the international
| Workers Relief is absolutely subordi-
mated to the Communist Internationale.
and .itewas denounced in the United
States by the Mine Workers Of
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