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Bulgaria is a peasant country, whose capital, Sofia, has been called an overgrown village. Bulgarians for the most part are pro-Russian by tradition, provincial by nature, pro-German by decree of persistently pro-German governments. They like Americans (but have had few dealings with them), consider Britain anti-Bulgar. They fear and hate the Turks, who ruled them for five centuries. They think that they have a right to keep lands snatched from Yugoslavia and Greece, but do not want to fight for these territories. In World War II they have found little profit, much distress...
Bulgaria's shaky government got no rest from proddings by Germany's enemies to quit Germany's war. Latest poke came last week from Moscow's Pravda and the pen of Bulgar Georgi Dimitroff, onetime defendant at Naziism's Reichstag fire trial and secretary of the late unlamented Communist International (see p. 20). Warned Bulgar Dimitroff: "The national policy of Bulgaria, from the viewpoint of her future, demands loyal cooperation with her neighbors. . . . Only by breaking with Germany at once and assisting in the defeat of Germany will Bulgaria save herself from catastrophe...
Smuggled from Sofia by nervous Bulgar officials following reports of a Nazi plot to create an "incident," two-fisted George Earle declared: "German fortunes are definitely declining, but the death throes may be unprecedentedly violent...
...industrial products almost huge enough to wipe out the $8,000,000 Germany owes Yugoslavia; and in Athens the swashbuckling entourage of Premier General Metaxas said talk had all been of deals involving German aircraft, artillery and four destroyers for Greece. In Sofia there was a matter of some Bulgar credits in Germany now secretly liquidated in great part by German shipments of arms to Italy for which Italy paid Bulgaria by canceling debts Bulgaria previously owed Italy; and as for the Hungarians they are now such large creditors of Germany that they simply have to buy more from...
...only studied German judicial procedure and earned the right to defend himself but hurled it with such withering invective at No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Premier of Prussia and President of the Reichstag, that the beefy Brownshirt completely lost control of himself, screamed at the stocky Bulgar in court like a madman...