Word: bulgaria
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...Bulgaria confirmed the report Germany wanted to march across it to the Greek border...
...farming people-80% of Bulgaria's population are peace-loving, pro-Russian farmers-scarcely knew what to think. They heard that schools were being shut down for fear of epidemics: but no one was sick. It frightened them to learn that Joseph Stalin had notified Bulgaria he would do nothing to resist German penetration. When Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff, on the first anniversary of forming his Cabinet, filled the only important Cabinet post to their way of thinking (the Ministry of Agriculture) with a notorious pro-German, Dmitri Kuscheff, it bewildered them: had not shrewd Ivan Bagrian-off been...
...week's end the people learned two sickening truths. The Government came right out and said that the Nazis intended to march their Army across the land to attack Greece-i.e., there was nothing to be done about it. And the British Minister to Bulgaria, George William Rendel, answered this with a curt announcement: "If the Germans occupy Bulgaria and make it a base against our ally, obviously we shall have to break off relations with Bulgaria and take whatever measures the situation requires"-i.e., Britain would make war on Bulgaria, and nothing could be done about that...
Yugoslavia, confronted with the accomplished fact of Bulgaria's falling into the Nazi camp, found herself outflanked, and prepared to fall .in too. By invitation Yugoslavia's Premier Dragisha Cvetko-vitch and Foreign Minister Dr. Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch went to Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat for a three-hour conversation. If Herr Hitler ranted, he wasted his breath. Premier Cvetkovitch speaks no German; Hitler's Interpreter Dr. Paul Schmidt does not echo the Führer's screams. And Foreign Minister Cincar-Markovitch, who speaks fluent German, is known to be the most patient...
Britain's friends, Greece and Turkey, remained Britain's friends-but this week Turkey and Bulgaria signed a non-aggression pact, indicating that Turkey's belligerence, if it came, would be entirely defensive. Greece, with no other friend than Britain, still showed no signs of acceding to reported German pressure for a separate Greek-Italian peace...