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ISTANBUL-Russia will do nothing to impede a German military occupation of Bulgaria, sources close to the Soviet embassy said today, as the Rome-Berlin Axis brought strong pressure on Turkey, seeking a pledge of her non-interference...
...past 48 hours and estimated 100 German transport planes carrying a total of perhaps 10,000 troops into Rumania and toward Bulgaria have passed over the Hungarian capital...
...From Bulgaria last week CBS Correspondent Leigh White poured out a bagful of new horror stories, gathered from eyewitness accounts of Rumania's fortnight-old Iron Guard rebellion. He told of Green Shirt ruffians ranging through the ghetto of Bucharest, firing shops and synagogues, shooting Jews and Christians who refused to join the fun, beating some senseless and setting matches to their gasoline-soaked bodies. He told of one band of Jews herded into a slaughterhouse, forced to kneel at the chopping blocks where their throats were cut in a grisly parody of kosher butchering. From...
...those countries would react to actual invasion. For the same purpose Germany kept the Balkans in a state of jitters last week. By displaying her Army across the Danube, by spreading rumors and feeding correspondents scare stories, the Germans have already learned that there is no fight in Bulgaria. Last week they turned the heat on Yugoslavia. Rumors spread that Germany had demanded the use of Yugoslav railways for the transport of equipment to Albania, that large German forces were being concentrated on Yugoslavia's borders. Purposes of this little war of nerves were to test the resistance...
...Ankara German Ambassador Franz von Papen used all his talent for intrigue to persuade the Turks that they would be fools to move if Germany entered Bulgaria. The Turkish General Staff promptly held a long conference with representatives of Britain's Army, Navy & Air Force. That gave the Germans just the information they were looking for. As soon as Yugoslavia could be frightened into tipping her hand Hitler would know how far he could move in the Balkans-and at what risk...