The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-28
BY MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Writer


 London--If by next fall there is still such thing as cabinet and a parliament in Germany the gov ernment is going to have a stormy time in the reichstag over ex-Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria.
 The crafty old fox-half German Coburg and half French Bourbon loser of his throne, kicked out of Bulgaria, would seem to be a queer person for Germans to be fighting aboat. But when and if the whole story comes out, 1t will be a sensa- ton.
 For the fact is, so assert the Ger man socialists, that while Germ any's business and finance are all shot to pieces, while the govern ment Is compelled to pass the hat around to the allied powers for monetary support. while taxation has been heaped upon the German people, and while wages have stead fly been beaten down, Ferdinand has been living fat and rich in Co., burg on money paid him from the German treasury.
 Just why the German taxpayer should dig into his pockets for marks and pfennigs which are passed on to Ferdinand has nevre quite been made clear. All that is definitely known is that the imper- ial government of ex-Kaiser Will helm made some sort of arrange ment with Ferdinand and all the republican administrations since then have honored the bond.
 In January, 1921, when Dr Feh- renbach was chancellor and Dr Wirth was finance minister, Ferdi- nand drew down from Germany the sum of 25 million marks, or the equivalent of about 100000 gold marks. He is said to have given the government his written assurance that he accepted this as payment in full of all promises made him by the imperial government of 1915.
 They Keep on Paying
 But in August, 1924, despite this, when Herr Wilhelm Marx was chancellor and Dr Luther, finance minister, another million gold marks were paid over to Ferdinand.
 In 1925, when Dr Luther was chancellor and Dr Schliben was finance minister, once more the gold thirsty Ferdinand drew down another million gold marks.
 Nobody knows what happened, but in April. 1927, when Dr Marx was chancellor and Dr Koehler was finance minister, the government showed itself more economical. It offered to Ferdinand an annual nand thought this shabby, so in ta ann Still the ex-czar kicked and by De- cember the government had once mora raised the ante. It would give him an annual sum of 12O,0OO marks-and for the rest of his life.
 Want to Know Why
 So, all in all, the dethroned czar has received out of the treasury or the German people over one mill lion dollars since he fled from Bull gari&. The social demacrotic party has resolved to put through a mo- tion, as soon as the reichstag meets, asking the government to tell all about it. In the meantime, the apol- ogiats for Ferdinand have been busy. Only their stories don't join up, One statement Is that when Ferdinand determined to take his people into the war on the side of Germany, he feared very much for the future of his landed estates In the old Austro- Hungarian empire. If the central powers lost the war, he was sure to lose his lands, which were estimated to be worth 25,00O,- 900 marks. So the story of one set of apologists is that the German imperial government guaranteed him against this loss.
 The other explanation is even stranger. Ferdinand Is said to have