Word: bulgaria
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...face of this imminence, the fact that Bulgaria had been conquered seemed only a passing incident. The fact that it was the twelfth nation to be overrun seemed an almost tediously insignificant statistic...
...conquest was as efficiently formulaic as most of Adolf Hitler's. With 600,000 Nazi troops across the northern border in Rumania, Bulgaria was hardly in position to say NO. But there were the usual diplomatic mummeries until Premier Filoff flew to Vienna, entered the florid Belvedere Palace, and took the pen offered him by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop under the eyes of Adolf Hitler himself. Then the Bulgarian Government's explanation-"the pressure of events"-seemed positively eloquent...
...anti-Nazi and pro-Russian, by squadrons of Nazi bombers and fighters roaring low over Sofia's roofs. Except for their ear-splitting drone the city was quiet, and along the sunny boulevards many shopkeepers unfurled the swastika. As the Nazi columns rolled into his capital, Boris of Bulgaria remained immured in his yellow palace and thought nervous thoughts. As the shrewder Balkan politicos remarked, it was all a foregone conclusion...
...Britain's Libyan victories. Final upshot was that the Anglo-Turkish alliance was strongly reaffirmed. Turkey rushed additional troops to the Bulgarian border, and closed the Dardanelles to all but ships with special permits and Turkish naval pilots. Turkey "nullified" her two-week old non-aggression pact with Bulgaria, and many observers thought the Soviet Government rebuked the whole Axis with a statement that Russia was "not in a position to support Bulgaria in carrying out her present policy...
Fortnight ago, when husky U. S. Minister to Bulgaria George H. Earle asked a Sofia café band to play Tipperary, trouble broke loose. The Minister said afterwards that an anonymous German had heaved a champagne bottle at him and that he had punched the German in the face...