Word: bessarabia
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King Carol II has expected a Soviet invasion of Rumania ever since the Russians took their cut of Poland. Reports from Rumania's border province of Bessarabia indicated that Rumanian troops were actually being withdrawn. The only explanation was that the Rumanian General Staff considered that Bessarabia could not be successfully defended...
...France. In London Mme Tabouis is not taken seriously by "Beachcomber" (J. B. Morton), Beaverbrook's amusing columnist for his two-million-circulation Daily Express. To "Beachcomber," Tabouis is Mme Tabouche (of L'Oeuf) who is continually seeking fulfillment of her prophecy that Iceland will march on Bessarabia...
...widely supposed that Germany agreed to recognize some Russian interests in the Balkans, most probably in Rumania's Bessarabia and in eastern Bulgaria and the Isthmus...
...lkischer Beobachter's prayer. In Moscow Communist International,official organ of the Communist Party, warned Rumania that she had better conclude an immediate pact with Russia, similar to those granted by the Baltic States and refused by unlucky Finland, and turn over the lost province of Bessarabia. In Moscow, New York Times Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye said he had learned "from a highly qualified observer" that Rumania did not even intend to defend the province-had no fortifications and not a single soldier there, was evacuating Rumanian businesses from the area, was mobilizing behind the River Prut, which...
...Command made further show of this free feeling by sending home 3,000 of 27,000 civilian doctors who were mobilized for service in the West. Perhaps spring will find some of these doctors in French Syria with Weygand's Army, ready to stem a Russian march into Bessarabia, or to drive at Germany through the postern gate of erstwhile Poland...