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Snarling at Russia's flanks, two jackals last week tried to muster courage to spring for the kill. Big Russia was bleeding from wounds made by Nazi fangs, but there was enough fight in the old bear to frighten Japan and Bulgaria. Benito Mussolini, who has got used to being called a jackal, must have grinned at their behavior...
...assembling last week in Bulgarian ports. Only rumor announced the news, but for once rumor had support. Berlin papers carried a photograph of no less a Nazi seaman than Grand Admiral Erich Raeder conversing with Bulgarian officers. The Russian Government sent a sharp note accusing its old friend Bulgaria not only of harboring Axis army and air force units, but of letting Axis warships gather in the ports of Varna and Burgas (on the Black Sea) and Ruschuk (on the Danube...
...would be a large order for the Axis fleet to sweep Russia's cruisers, destroyers and submarines out of the Black Sea. But the Nazis would hardly have sent so big a shot as Admiral Raeder to Bulgaria for his health...
Many observers thought that the Nazis were planning, not a Battle of the Black Sea, but a Battle for Batum and its oil. Remembering the swift air-&-sea invasion of Norway, they pointed out that Transcaucasia is only 700 miles across the Sea from Bulgaria, less than three hours by troop-carrying plane...
Whatever the Axis plans for the Black Sea, Russia was not caught napping. Soviet bombers began pounding Rumanian ports. If it should also be necessary to bomb Bulgaria, Russia's note, next thing to a declaration of war, cleared...