IN BULGARIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 248, 17 September 1936, Page 9

IN BULGARIA.

FASCIST STATE LIKELY. The erection of a new authoritarian State is expected to be the sequel to the long European tour of King Boris of Bulgaria, during which he saw Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini, and which ended recently with a week-end visit to the Yugoslavian senior Regent (Prince Paul) at Bled. Behind the scenes in Bulgaria Professor Tzankoff and his National-Social-ists, well organised on the German model, are energetically campaigning. King Boris’s meeting with Prince Paul was strictly private; but it is believed in Belgrade that it will tend towards spreading Nazi or Fascist influence in the Balkans. Reports from Bulgaria state that King Boris intends, if he feels strong enough, to institute a Fascia dictatorship with Professor Tzankoff as the head, The Belgrade correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph states that the regular political parties in Bulgaria are well aware whit is afoot and are determined to resist the attempt to establish Fascism in Bulgaria, which might lead to fighting as serious as that in Spain. Reports from Greece, where the Premier (General Metaxas) dismissed the Chamber of Deputies, and proclaimed niartial law last month, indicate that some form of non-party Government is in General Metaxas’s' mind, but the London Times considers that his insistence that, while the political system has been suppressed, neither the individuals who compose it, nor its values, will be suppressed ■ with it, suggests that the State of which General Metaxas dreams will afford greater scope for individual liberty than some existing dictatorships.