Word: bulgaria
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...common struggle for freedom and victory over Hitlerism. The importance of this declaration has been stressed in advance by Herr Hitler himself as far back as Feb. 27, 1925. . . . Referring to World War I he said: "The Allies ... did not say: 'We fight Germany and Austria and Bulgaria and Turkey.' No, on the contrary, they always stressed: 'We are fighting the Kaiser and militarism only.' Whether they fought in Mesopotamia or Russia, France, Serbia or elsewhere, the enemy remained the same...
...struck the first U.S. blow against Germany (Minister to Bulgaria George Howard Earle, whose weapon was a bottle in the face of a German) arrived in Istanbul last week, en route home with his staff...
...whispered that the German colony was evacuating en masse. Turkey stood squarely in the way of what seemed the most logical German drive: toward Suez, the oil of Iraq and the Caucasus, and the eastern relief of the Axis in Libya. There were constant reports of German massing in Bulgaria, just across the Turkish frontier. The Allies were alarmed by reports that Turkey, on peaceful assurances from Germany, had signed a treaty with Germany and Bulgaria calling for the rebuilding of bridges across the Turkish-Bulgarian border which had been removed during Germany's Balkan advance last spring...
...Ismet Inönü expediently turned his bad ear to German protests that his acceptance of Lend-Lease aid was unneutral. But he could hear clearly enough reports from Turkey's Bulgarian border that Germany was increasing her gasoline stocks and working feverishly on air bases in Bulgaria. Turkey awaited her Kismet (fate) and wondered about rumors that Chief of Staff General Fevzi Cakmak was partial to the Axis...
Against the Allies: Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Manchukuo, Rumania, Slovakia...