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George William Rendel, slight, shy, former British Minister to Bulgaria, is a long-suffering gentleman. When Minister Rendel left Bulgaria last year after the Nazis' arrival, someone planted a bomb in his luggage. No sooner had Minister Rendel and his diplomatic party arrived in the ornate lobby of Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel than the bomb went off, killing one of the Minister's girl secretaries and four Turks, turning the lobby into a geyser of shattered trunks, curios and potted palms (TIME, March 24, 1941). Oddly enough, the Pera Palace sued Minister Rendel and party...
...Steady sabotage, despite the Nazi firing squads, was one sign (see p. 31). Another was the brave defense of Yugoslavia's "Island of Freedom" (see p. 31). Still another was given last week when the Bulgarian Cabinet resigned after a majority was said to have rejected plans for Bulgaria which King Boris III brought home from Berlin last month. Puppet-Premier-Professor Bogdan Filoff at once formed a new Cabinet with only two of the previous nine members...
...long been rumored that Bulgaria would be used as a starting point for attacks on Russia or Turkey or both. As to that, strong hints appeared last week. Premier Filoff declared that Bulgaria "would pursue a friendly policy in Turkey." Turkish Ambassador to Germany Husrev Gerede, about to return to Berlin after an Istanbul visit, beamed to reporters: "You can write that I return to Berlin smiling. I am particularly satisfied that my return was delayed a few days to enable me to talk once again with my close friend and colleague [German Ambassador] Franz von Papen...
...wants to declare war on Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria. A fortnight ago, a short comminatory note, such as Britain once sent to Finland, was drawn up in three versions. Each note explained that, should the Government of Hungary (or Rumania or Bulgaria) persist in its attitude of contributing to Axis aggression, the U.S. would find itself obliged to consider itself at war with Hungary (or Rumania or Bulgaria). Then an unforeseen difficulty arose: who would deliver the notes? There are no more U.S. representatives in Hungary (or Rumania or Bulgaria); the diplomatic representatives of those countries are at the moment...
...second request, however, the Swiss, an ingenious people who make watches, thought up a "semiofficial" way to deliver the note. An attaché of the Swiss Foreign Office at Berne, they suggested, might pay a visit to a secretary of the Legation of Hungary (or Rumania or Bulgaria) and mention that the Swiss Legation in Washington happened to have learned that the U.S. Government was thinking of declaring war on Hungary (and Rumania and Bulgaria). Indeed, he even happened to have got hold of a copy of a note to that effect. Dropping the note on the table, the Swiss...