РАД БУГАРСКОГ ПОСЛАНСТВА У БЕОГРАДУ ПРОТИВ ВОЈНЕ ИНТЕРВЕНЦИЈЕ КРАЉЕВИНЕ СХС (9–18. ЈУН 1923)
THE ACTIVITIES OF THE BULGARIAN DIPLOMATIC MISSION IN BELGRADE AGAINST THE MILITARY INTERVENTION OF THE KINGDOM OF SCS (9 JUNE – 18 JUNE 1923)

Summary/Abstract: It took Aleksandar Stamboliyski and the Bulgarian Agrarian People’s Union73 almost four years to establish normal and friendly relations with the Kingdom of SCS, which culminated in the signing of Treaty of Niš and the Yugoslav support to Bulgaria at the Lausanne Peace Conference. The sudden overthrow in Sofia on 9 June, 1923, caught the Yugoslav state and the Bulgarian Mission in Belgrade unprepared. Immediately after the overthrow, within the Belgrade state, political and public circles the atmosphere was boiling hot. On the other hand, the Bulgarian diplomatic officials were unable to establish an immediate communication with their chief Konstantin Todorov and Rajko Daskalov, Aleksandar Stamboliyski’s successor. Assessing the position Kingdom of SCS had taken, Charge d’Affaires Konstantin Ljudskanov-Tsankov relied more on private conversations with Yugoslav government officials, politicians and journalists than on the official statements the Minister Momčilo Ninčić and his assistant Ljubomir Nešić had given in public. Therefore, he concluded that the government in Belgrade was preparing a military intervention and occupation of Bulgaria and that the concentration of the troups at the border was not meant merely to preserve the peace and security from the new unforeseen events. Based on his own conviction, from 9 to 18 June, he worked against the involvement of the Yugoslav army. His key argument was that a forcible return of Aleksandar Stamboliyski and BAPU to power in Sofia would destroy their political base among the Bulgarian peasants. This argument apparently had some influence on Yugoslav statesmen. Momcilo Ninčić used it for a parliamentary debate with the opposition in the National Assembly, but it also affected the decision of the Yugoslav government to accept the plan of supporting Rajko Daskalov and let the Bulgarian agrarians to organize their own strong armed uprising against the Aleksandar Tzankov’s government and IMRO.

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