Thursday, April 17, 2025

Today -100: April 17, 1925: A cunning plan


Remember the assassination of Gen. Konstantin Georgiev in Sofia, Bulgaria a couple of days ago? Turns out it was bait. During his funeral, attended by many generals and the Cabinet, the roof of the St Nedelya Church is blown up by an “infernal device” (which is the worst sort of device), killing 213 people, including Sofia mayor Paskal Paskalev; Gen. Stefan Nerezov, chief of Staff of the Bulgarian Army; former minister of war Kalin Naydenov; and several other generals and MPs. Cabinet members, who the positioning of the bomb suggests were the primary targets, escape because of the timing of the explosion. There was a large crowd in part because the Bulgarian Communist Party forged invitations and sent them out. Tsar Boris missed the funeral fun, at least that particular funeral fun, as he was attending the funerals of the people who died in the assassination attempt on himself.

The new PainlevĂ© Cabinet in France will no longer have a “Ministry of the Devastated Regions.”

Opponents of the Cabinet, and of Joseph Caillaux in particular, plan to ask him, the first time he appears in the Senate, “Who started the war?”

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