Word: bulgaria
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...able to overrun northwestern Yugoslavia coming down in a drive that will outflank and take the great Yugoslavian loop of the Danube Drives were to be expected down the river itself from Mohacs and Subotica in Hungary, and perhaps also from Rumania through the Iron Gate, or from Bulgaria driving towards Nish from Sofia...
...Young Committee in 1929 to $26,350,000,000, the yearly payments decreased. In 1932, when Germany ceased to pay, the Allies had collected some $9,000,000,000-a little less than twice as much as the territories occupied by Nazis (excluding Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria) now, according to this reckoning, pay each year for the privilege of having German troops police them...
...North Africa the footloose Colonel went to Athens, where he found the British laying plans to widen their front. The Greeks were frightened of too much British aid, thought it would provoke the Germans. Colonel Donovan interrupted his stay in Athens to pay a call on Tsar Boris of Bulgaria...
...Sofia he sat down for two hours with Boris. Since both men are old soldiers, Colonel Donovan doubtless talked soldiers' language to the Tsar. And since Bulgaria waited another six weeks before joining the Axis, his language must have been somewhat effective. It was during his stay in Sofia that someone pinched Wild Bill's passport (TIME, Feb. 3). But the papers the pickpocket wanted were where he could not reach them...
...probably worrying about something. An English friend has said of him: "Nobody could really be so worried about his work as George always looks." When he entered the Pera Palace with an entourage of some 50 persons, whom he had brought from Sofia because Britain broke off relations with Bulgaria after the Nazi influx (TIME, March 10), it was typical of George William Rendel that he went straight upstairs to his room and began to check over personally his Legation's more important papers. Other members of the British group were signing the hotel register or chatting...