Word: balkan
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...diplomacy, not only stopped talking about the huge force the British were supposed to be landing at Salonika, but even lent credence to "reports in Egypt" that now the Greeks were going to help the British in Libya. He wrote: "The British ... as well as Greek troops must abandon Balkan aid and rush to the weakened, endangered Wavell Army...
...even the strongest assurances of Greek resolution could scarcely have been more than a partial relief to Anthony Eden's-and Britain's-Balkan anxiety. For last week another potential bar to Adolf Hitler's southeastern drive-Yugoslavia-seemed likely to prove just about as flimsy as Bulgaria proved a fortnight...
...over Sofia's roofs. Except for their ear-splitting drone the city was quiet, and along the sunny boulevards many shopkeepers unfurled the swastika. As the Nazi columns rolled into his capital, Boris of Bulgaria remained immured in his yellow palace and thought nervous thoughts. As the shrewder Balkan politicos remarked, it was all a foregone conclusion...
...aside from the official communiques. If the Greeks are attacked and are inadequately supported by the British, there is little question that they will be wiped out, and the Germans will be in a position to threaten the English in the Near East. I don't believe that either Balkan state will stand up against Hitler unless the British are really powerful in Saloniki or in front of Constantinople. They will certainly not fight alone...
Langer then continued to say that Russia will not help the English by resisting the German penetration in the Balkans. If Hitler felt that there was any chance that Stalin would open up on him, he would never have undertaken the Balkan venture. "Russia is probably not strong enough to worry the Nazis, anyway," he concluded...