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...peace-loving, pro-Russian farmers-scarcely knew what to think. They heard that schools were being shut down for fear of epidemics: but no one was sick. It frightened them to learn that Joseph Stalin had notified Bulgaria he would do nothing to resist German penetration. When Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff, on the first anniversary of forming his Cabinet, filled the only important Cabinet post to their way of thinking (the Ministry of Agriculture) with a notorious pro-German, Dmitri Kuscheff, it bewildered them: had not shrewd Ivan Bagrian-off been eased out of the same job for the very...
More Than Ulcers. At 6:05 one evening last week, Bulgaria's Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff arrived back in Sofia after five days in Vienna. To newspapermen he said curtly: "Reports circulated in America concerning my visit to Germany are not true." He had really been to see his doctor, nothing more...
Something more crucial than Bogdan Filoff's stomach ulcers was discussed in those feverish sessions. That something could only have been one thing: whether or not to grant Germany troop transit through Bulgaria or at least use of air bases in Bulgaria, so that the big end of the Rome-Berlin Axis could get the little end out of its Grecian swivet. The Bulgars' decision might make no immediate difference whatsoever: the Germans could undoubtedly penetrate Bulgaria whether the Bulgars wished it or not. But the ramifications of the decision might have heavy bearing on the outcome...
...Only for Bulgaria." At week's end, the worried conferences which Bogdan Filoff had had with his King and his Cabinet bore fruit. He went to Russe, on the Danube, just opposite the spot where the Germans were supposed to be most heavily concentrated. There he made a speech in which he voiced the sentiments of Boris...
SOFIA--Premier Bogdan Filoff said today that the war threatens to envelop the entire world as result of President Roosevelt's pledge of all-out aid to Britain...