BULGARIA NEXT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19125, 21 September 1936, Page 12

BULGARIA NEXT

FASCIST STATE LIKELY KING BORIS’ TOUR : " . LONDON. Sept. 5. 'Tfie ereclioii of a * new-authoritarian State 39 expected to be the sequel to the long - European tour .of King Boris ot Bulgaria, during which he has seen Herr Hitler and Signor-Mussolini, and which is- riCwv ending .with a week-end .visit- to tKo .Yugoslavian senior regent, Pnnce Paul, at Bled. . . King Boris is due back m Bulgaria next week where, behind the __ scopes, Professor Tzankoff and his Nationalgpcialists, well- organised on the German model, 'are energetically campaigning. King Boris’ meeting with' Prince Paul waa strictlv private; but it is, believed in Belgrade that it will tend towards; spreading Nazi or Fascist influence in the' Balkans. Reports from _ -Bulgaria, state tlrnt King Boris intends, if he feels strong enough, to institute a- Fascist diefatorship with Professor Tzankoff'as the The Belgrade correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that the regular political parties in Bulgaria are well aware what is afoot and are determined £6" resist the attempt to establish Fascism its -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,; arid . proclaimed martial law last .month, indicate, that some form of non-party Government is in General Metaxas’ mind, but The fumes considers that liis insistence that' wmle the political system has been suppressed, nether 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 fo f individual liberty than some existing dictatorships. .