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Rumania. Grey-green troops pouring down the Danube and over a dozen land routes rapidly brought the southward-moving Nazi "army of occupation" towards its announced strength of ten divisions (about 150,000). Three hundred tanks had arrived in the frontier zone opposite Soviet Bessarabia, and at Galati near the mouth of the Danube German naval experts were reported supervising the construction of a submarine base for underwater craft to be shipped from the Reich in sections.* To accommodate the Nazi influx, 120 trains were removed from passenger service on Rumanian railroad lines...
...able to laugh. These Germans, they said, are certainly inventive. First they flooded the world with "experts," incredible numbers of them expertising all the wray from China to Chile. Then they sent out "tourists"-40,000 of them supposedly rubbernecking in Spain right now. Then there were "refugees," leaving Bessarabia when Russia moved in and taking up strategic refuge all over the Balkans. Then there were "official photographers"-22 of them recently reported in full Nazi uniform in Bulgaria. And now "instructors." In order to instruct the Rumanians in the arts of combat, the Germans were said to be sending...
...British. . . ." Nor were the dispatches of correspondents promoting a fight between Germany and Russia convincing. These made much of "massed troops" in Russia's Northern Bukovina, the partial evacuation of Cer-nauti on the Rumania-Russian border, rumored movements of Soviet tanks and motorized units, the visit to Bessarabia of Russian Commissar of Defense Semion Timoshenko. The principal business of Marshal Timoshenko was to visit his home town and chat with his rickety brother. One extremely indirect report told of the sinking of Rumanian Monitor No. 6 by the Russians; but another version called it a Yugoslav tanker sunk...
...Bessarabia is Russian...
...Bessarabia, the Russian commented that it "has always been part of Russia and was taken away when we were weak. We asked for its return and a satisfactory agreement was made...