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...week for the Russians, but, according to Paul Winterton of the London News Chronicle, the people of Moscow seemed to expect something bigger still. Since the Red Armies were about as busy as they could possibly be on the Baltic and Balkan flanks, "something bigger" could only come in the center-in Poland. "What's coming," said Winterton, "will make what's gone by look like a sideshow...
Light was cast on this sudden Balkan development by a delayed cable from TIME Correspondent Percival Knauth, giving the first eyewitness account of the Russian occupation of Rumania...
...days later the first ground troops arrived by sea on the west shore, made a de luxe landing. They not only found planes of their own Balkan Air Force operating from airfields ahead of them; they also found supplies and fuel neatly arranged in dumps and not a German in sight. Said one officer: "When those fellows got off the boat on D-day they even had mail waiting for them. . . . The only casualty in the whole operation...
...attack appeared to be part of the Hungary operation, and the swing northward to Germany's side door. Another drive toward Nish, an important position on the Athens-Belgrade railroad, seemed designed to cut off the last Germans in Yugoslavia and Greece. Malinovsky was liquidating the Germans' Balkan venture, with yeoman help from Tito's Partisans and the British in Greece. But while he was carrying out this politico-military mission he was not forgetting the main job. Germany would feel the heavy hand of his army...
...onetime hero of the Reichstag fire trial, onetime secretary of the Communist International. In a letter to Sofia's Communist Rabotnitchesko Delo, Dimitrov welcomed Bulgarian troops to the side of the Red Army. Reported PM's Correspondent M. W. Fodor: "The letter has caused some uneasiness among Balkan nationals...