SENSATION CAUSED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1941, Page 10

SENSATION CAUSED

BULGARIAN POLITICS

MINISTER'S RESIGNATION

FRIEND OF THE KING

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received February 6, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, February 5. I The Sofia correspondent of "The Times" says that the resignation of the Bulgarian Minister of Agriculture, M. Bagrianoff, has caused a sensation in political circles. He is one of the King's closest friends and is also very popular among the peasants, and yet King Boris has approved his resignation. It appears that M. Bagrianoff was over-confident ]ast week when he made a speech in Parliament criticising the Government's economic policy, expecting the Cabinet to resign. King Boris, who hitherto has conceded much, obviously did not like the latest manoeuvres. The resignation weakens the position of the Cabinet, but frees the Government of a politician who aims to institute a totalitarian economic system. It is not believed that the resignation will affect the foreign policy. The Sofia correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says it is reported from Berlin that officials are surprised and disappointed. The Bulgarian Premier's refusal to agree to closer collaboration with Germany is regarded as an unfriendly act. The German Press has recently been hailing M. Bagrianoff as the coming Premier.