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Last week Bulgaria longed to get out of the war with the longing of a dying man for life. In Sofia before an extraordinary session of Parliament Premier Ivan Bagrianoff spoke extraordinary words. What he said might be timely demagoguery, but it implied that Bulgarians wanted to hear it, and it foreshadowed the. social changes which may accompany the break of satellite states with the Nazis...
Officially We Know Nothing. Another Balkan monarch, Bulgaria's seven-year-old King Simeon II, may also owe his tottery throne to the Soviet Union. Said the same official: "Moscow should have informed us of an understanding with Bulgaria. It did not. So, officially, we do not know anything about it. But several indications have come to us, mainly from Ankara, pointing to the probability of the existence of a Soviet-Bulgarian understanding...
...presently there would be friendly governments in Bulgaria, Rumania, Yugoslavia, perhaps even in Greece...
Meanwhile Premier and Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu announced: "The next step will depend on the attitude of the Germans." Turkey's action stiffened backbones in Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary. For the first time all three Nazi satellite Governments talked back to Berlin, refused to break off diplomatic relations with the Turks...
Some of Ankara's rumors concerned Turkey's neighbor, Bulgaria. It was whispered that Sofia had asked Hitler to withdraw his two German divisions from Bulgaria, had hinted that it was time to make peace with the Allies. There was one report that Bulgaria and Turkey were discussing how to avoid hostilities, another to the effect that Turkey was planning to invade Bulgaria. Well might the Bulgarians worry. If the Turks were entering the war to fight, Bulgaria might become a Balkan battleground as Turkish armies attempted to smash their way up in the rear of groggy Rumania...