When John B Jackson, an American diplomat who by the mid-1900s had served in US diplomatic missions all over the world, learned in 1903 that Bulgaria would be added to Greece, Romania and Serbia in his portfolio, he was “dead set against it”.
“He said, I don’t want to be here, take me away, it’s backward. As time went on, he would be coming to Sofia and start to appreciate the place. Then he wrote a letter back: don’t take me away, I want to stay here. Give me more assignments.”
Meeting Novinite, Yoav Chudnoff, who has been actively contributing to …read more
Source: Novinite