Who is Who in Central & East Europe 1933

 


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The Balkan Conferences


Platon Soterios Drakoules, England and Greece ->
Missions: Constantinople, 1910, to promote Balkan Federation; Sofia, Belgrade, Bucharest, 1914, to promote Inter-Balkan labour Entente.

Anna Karima, Bulgaria ->
In 1933 she called the representatives of Balkan peoples for a Balkan Conference in Salonica, Greece; to work for the peace of the Balkan with application to the "Porteparole de l'Entente dans la guerre", "Liberation of peoples": liberty for : Croats, Montenegrians, Slovakians, of Bosnia and Herzegowina, Macedonia, Thracia, Hungary, and Dalmatia to cooperate with Rumania; Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Austria, Albania - to form the United States of the Balkans, all independent from European great Powers.

Mehmed Konitza, Albania ->
was also a minister of Albania in London, etc. and a president of the National Group for the Balkan Conference.

Stephan Kyroff, Bulgaria ->
established in 1908 the Committee of Federation with Turkey and the other Balkan States. In 1918 he founded the Society of Peace whose president he has been until 193. He was Chief of the Bulgarian delegation to the Balkan Conference in Athens 1930 and he represented the Society of Peace in many conferences in various countries.

Demeter Maximos, Greece ->
played a principal part in the realization of the Balkan Union and was a chief promoter of the Balkans' Pact, signed in Athens in February 1933.

Alexandre Papanastarin, Greece ->
In 1929 he attended International congresses of Peace and was proposed as President to organization of the Balkan-Greek Conference. In 1930 he organized first Balkan Conference in Athens and was President of the 4th Balkan Congress in Salonica.

Janko Sakasoff, Bulgaria ->
is now President of the National Bulgarian Group for the Balkan Conferences and he promotes the rapproachment of the Balkan people.

Panaghis Tsaldaris, Greece ->
Under his premiership the Balkans' Pact, assuring the Cooperation of Greece, Yugoslavia, Rumania and Turkey, was signed.