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...Walter Graebner has been to Russia, but Russia is almost the only place in Europe where he has not been since he started work for TIME in 1931. He has followed the news into Warsaw, Berlin. Prague, Paris, Budapest, Bucharest. He has interviewed newsmakers in Rome, Barcelona, Lisbon, Istanbul, Ankara, Jerusalem, Cairo...
...formation to make the significance of these bulletins clearer. And other correspondents are frequently in the Cairo office-George Rodger, for example, is there about now on his way home from New Delhi; Hart Preston spent some time in Cairo recently en route to a special job in Ankara...
...experts estimated that the Germans would have on the front 250 divisions-around 5,000,000 men-when the weather opened up, that they would include at least 25 Panzer divisions. The Russians announced that Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov was ready with his spring troops, in "tens of divisions." From Ankara came more definite figures on Voroshilov's strength: 75 infantry divisions, 20 tank divisions, twelve motorized, 15 cavalry. Added to what Russia already had on the front, they would probably outnumber anything Germany could muster...
That venerable, paunchy group of symphonists, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, was billed to appear in Ankara before the end of March. Their program was not announced to the world at large, but last week it seemed almost certain that they would play the overture to a great Middle Eastern push by Adolf Hitler...
Though Rumania's snarls were angrier, Hungary seemed more ready to bite. Thousands of troops were manning the Rumanian frontier. In Transylvania, Hungary was deliberately conscripting men of Rumanian ancestry to reduce Rumania's ethnic claim to the territory. In Ankara, it was reported that Hungary's Chief of Staff, Field Marshal Franz Szombathelyi, had recently been in Sofia trying to persuade Bulgaria to sign a joint ultimatum against Rumania...