GUESOV, IVAN EVSTRATIEV Bul garian politician, was born at Philippopolis on Feb. 1849. He was educated at Philippopolis, and at Owens college, Manchester. In 1872 he returned to Bulgaria. In 1877 he was arrested by the Turkish governor and condemned to death for political propaganda against Turkish rule, but was saved by the intervention of the British and American consuls. He then began to send accounts of the Turkish atrocities to The Times and The Daily News (Lon don). In 1878 Guesov became general manager of the Bulgarian National Bank at Sofia, and was minister of finance from to 1897. He was elected president of the Sobranie (National As sembly) in 1901 and became prime minister in March 1911. As such, he concluded the alliances which formed the basis of the Balkan Alliance of 1912. On May 3o, 1913, owing to King Fer dinand's failure to support his moderate policy, which might have averted the second Balkan War, Guesov resigned. During the World War he retired from politics and became president of the Bulgarian Red Cross. He died at Sofia on March i 1, 1924.
Guesov published well-documented accounts and defences of his policy, in two short but important works: L'Alliance Balkanique (1915; Eng. trans., The Balkan League, 1915) and La Genese de la Guerre Mondiale (Berne, 1919) .