BULGARIA: Red Sofia

Busy little Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria and his sloe-eyed Italian Tsarina were completely dumbfounded, as was everyone else in Sofia last week, when the capital suddenly went Communist.

Ballot counting showed that Red candidates had more than doubled their strength in the City Council, that parties favorable to Tsar Boris had lost more than half their seats. What to do? What would Queen Elena say in Rome? Would Il Duce tolerate a Red Sofia? Must the Tsar & Tsarina in their small stucco palace submit to the existence not two blocks away of a Red Council in the large, stucco City Hall?

Hurriedly the Tsar sent for Muschanoff, his trusty Premier.

“The result of this election will not be tolerated!” announced Nicholas Musch-anoff on quitting the Royal Palace. “The new City Council will be dissolved by His Majesty’s Government and we shall take certain obvious and necessary steps.”

These steps, according to Sofia rumors, will be to rush through the Sobranye (Parliament) a law making Communism illegal, then stamp it out of Bulgaria.

His Majesty’s Government has employed for some time a public executioner suspected of Communist leanings, one Hussein Jasara. Jubilant after the election, Hussein Jasara proceeded to celebrate in old style Slavic fashion. He danced, drank, was finally shot dead by the gypsy he was brawling with.