Word: balkans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty little resort town of Salzburg last week went delegations from three Balkan nations-but they didn't go there for fun. It was not yet known whether Germany or Russia (or both) was to be the master of their fate. In case it was Germany they had gone to get their German orders...
More than a narrow strip of Transylvania was already out of Rumanian hands when sorely beset King Carol II acceded to the suggestion of roly-poly Colonel Gerstenberg, Hitler's capable and very persuasive Balkan bagman, and gave the 740,000 Germans in Transylvania the right to arm, immunity from joining the new Rumanian Party of The Nation and freedom from Army requisitioning...
With Germany determined to settle the simmering Balkans, the Russian angle last week seemed to be to get them to boil over. Into circulation went rumors of a Russian-proposed three-nation block of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Rumania. Also rumored was a Russian note suggesting the desirability of a "popular Government" in Rumania. Fortnight ago the Moscow radio stopped criticizing Rumania, began defending her title to Transylvania. And last week Soviet agents began distributing propaganda tracts, appealing to all Balkan workers to follow the example of the proletarians in the three Baltic States and "liberate themselves" by joining...
Through diplomatic channels, Germany advised King Carol to quit the Balkan Entente. This bloc, consisting of Rumania, Turkey, Greece and Yugoslavia, to which King Carol adhered even after his tumble into the Nazi camp, has in general been favorable to British and Russian interests. He had a good reason: the Entente served as a check on Bulgaria, which wants the Rumanian province of Dobruja. Hungary, which covets Rumanian Transylvania, last week opened a screaming press attack on Rumania because of Carol's "shifty" policy toward the Axis, to which Hungary clings. Finally, Russia handed King Carol a note stressing...
Keeping tabs on the G. A. N. A. are a civic committee and a self-appointed squad of businessmen, while the station in turn has spotters watching "certain Hammond businessmen." With everybody claiming to be helping the F. B. I., Hammond has taken on a fine Balkan atmosphere...