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...long awaited Armageddon in southeastern Europe approached so fast last week that all but the troops involved were left behind the rush of events. It was spring-the season of German invasions of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark and Norway. One day the only Nazis in Bulgaria were a few scattered thousands in mufti. Next day Bulgarian Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff had signed with the Axis in Vienna and Bulgarian roads were jammed with mechanized Nazi columns. Within 48 hours the grey-green uniformed vanguard had rumbled 175 miles to villages in the Struma Valley a few miles from the mountainous...
SOFIA-The German war machine rolled through Sofia's blacked-out streets tonight amid a nationwide mobilization against any sudden British air attack after a parting warning by British Minister George Rendel that Bulgaria "may suffer" for her capitulation to Adolph Hitler...
...Greek seaport of Thessalonice, or Saloniki, holds the key to the tricky Balkan situation," he said, explaining that this city, located in the strip of Greece that borders on Bulgaria, can be used as a base for operations against the Germans as they sweep down towards Greece...
...diplomacy in Nazi-networked Bulgaria last week was hardly on the sleek side. The U. S. Minister to Bulgaria is husky, 220-lb. George Howard Earle. A deceptively sleepy-looking native of Philadelphia's archconservative "Main Line," in 1932 he shocked his background by loudly turning New Dealer, shocked it further in 1935 by becoming the New Deal's liberal Governor of Pennsylvania...
...independent, assertive Minister to Bulgaria is very fond of night life, and one night last week he went to a café in Bulgaria's capital, Sofia. The conditions of World War II have often reminded the Minister of World War I, when he was a U. S. Navy lieutenant and got the Navy Cross for risking his life to save the crew of his burning submarine chaser. In the Sofia cafe last week the Minister felt reminiscent and asked the band to play Tipperary. It did so, and many people sang with the Minister. But there were also...