The Archive · 1934

By SAPAJOU

Jorders usually attendant _upon revolution of this nature, for that, is what this movement in Bul jgaria amounts to, With the support of the military a benevolent, tyranny has been instituted. It] has before it a task quite as big, relatively to the size of the country, as that of any other nation Jwhich has had to encounter the same difficulties. How far it will [be successful depends entirely upon ithe ability to effect those reforms Jwhich the King has promised in his declaration, and the rapidity' with which itis done, It will probably be a long time before the country returns to the old democratic form of government. The genius of Bulgaria, as is the lease with several other continent {tal_ nations, is not adapted to a form of control in which different, political opinions may be allowed {to exist, and it may be expected that, following examples which jate now already classical, that the first moves of the new govern-Jment will be to stamp out any Jorganized opposition and thus reinforce that grip on the State Jwhich the Army appears already to have given it. As was remark-Jed earlier in this article, dyed-inthe-wool constitutionalists will heave a sigh of regret at the passing of the Muchanoft government land what the change-over entails, but, in the eyes of those to whom communism is anathema, it }will appear better to have an unconstitutional dictatorship, than a democratic form of government which permits the canker of communism to spread as it had done in other countries _before drastic steps were taken to destroy it.

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