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...fleeting power. For a giddy moment, Yugoslavia was the most powerful nation in Europe. For an hour, Yugoslavia was stopping Hitler. The Yugoslavs realized that until Hitler was sure of them, he preferred to undertake no new adventure in the Balkans. He could scarcely afford to attack Greece from Bulgaria alone-through what the Yugoslavs could make a deathtrap, the Struma River Valley. He would have to be sure first of the Yugoslav flank; he would like to have Yugoslavia's broader, safer Vardar Valley...
Belgrade's gaiety was not likely to last long. There were similar hitches and delays before Bulgaria signed into the Axis. But there was one factor which might keep Yugoslavia happy, might even keep Yugoslavia out of the Axis, for a while anyhow. It certainly contributed to the false happiness of Belgrade last week. It was the persistent report that Britain, though conscious of the terrible risk of a Balkan battle, was landing in Greece in force...
...Next Big Offensive." The first word, early in the week, was that 40 British transports had arrived at Peiraeus, the port of Athens, and were unloading troops; that other transports were due at Salonika-only 60 miles from the nearest Germans in Bulgaria. Then came a far more solid hint. The Greeks announced that their destroyer Psara had sunk an Italian submarine as it attempted to attack a convoy on its way through the Aegean Sea: the convoy was presumablv British...
...burst-open trunks and suitcases. Several Turks on the car were badly injured. Inside the now fiercely burning Pera Palace screaming chaos reigned. Cables flashed all over the world that a bomb attack had been made upon His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Bulgaria, George William Rendel...
ISTANBUL--Reports circulating in diplomatic quarters today that plans for a possible "surprise offensive" against Germany's army in Bulgaria by Great Britain, Turkey, and Greece were discussed at yesterday's Anglo-Turkish conference at Cyprus...