Word: bessarabia
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Rumania did not have to wait long for that future to materialize. This week Russian planes began making reconnaissance flights over Bessarabia. Then border clashes were reported all along the Dnestr River. Though the Rumanian Army made a show of resistance for the record, it has no chance of stopping the Russians without help, and Germany had already acknowledged Russia's claim to Bessarabia in secret deals last year...
...Germany. Tass said only 18 or 20 divisions, not the 100 reported from London, had moved into the Baltic States. Germany took the occupation calmly. Germany's calm was doubtless real, since last year's deals gave Russia a free hand in the Baltic as well as Bessarabia...
...Defense Commissar was born in 1895 of peasant stock in Bessarabia (now Rumanian), worked as farm laborer for a Russian noble, in 1915 was drafted into the Imperial Army. Private Semion
...opinion Stalin and Hitler are going to sit tight now, consolidate their gains, and let the Allies make the next more. Russia probably will not grab Bessarabia in the near future, because that might frighten the Turks into the war and with them the Allies, who probably will not be able to move into the Balkans unless Turkey is at war with Russia...
Germany not only depends upon her Balkan supplies for the war, but must increase them. The Soviet Union still looks upon Rumania's Bessarabia as a part of Russia, feels a kinship toward the Balkans' huge Slavic population. Italy regards the Balkans as her natural Lebensraum. The Allies would like nothing better than to get Germany or the U. S. S. R. involved in the Balkans so that they would have an open war front for their Armies in southeastern Europe...