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Until Hitler could make his preparations for taking Bulgaria without a fight, his advance army of psychological sappers continued busily undermining, camouflaging, sending up trial rumors and tentative untruths, paving the way for a Blitzkrieg in the spring just as they did in the Lowlands in 1940. Such a welter of conflicting reports was abroad in the Balkans last week that the Nazis were actually surprised. "It's a splendid fog," said a happy Berlin spokesman, "and others made...
...Only for Bulgaria." At week's end, the worried conferences which Bogdan Filoff had had with his King and his Cabinet bore fruit. He went to Russe, on the Danube, just opposite the spot where the Germans were supposed to be most heavily concentrated. There he made a speech in which he voiced the sentiments of Boris...
...should not be influenced by our feelings or sympathies or desires. We must remain, before everything else, Bulgarians, and work only for Bulgaria, to be ready to make sacrifices only for Bulgarian interests and never for foreign ones...
...must warn you that today war and peace do not depend on small nations like Bulgaria. She is so small that she cannot dictate whether there shall be war or peace. We have therefore to be ready for any eventuality...
...lacking. Both London and Washington observed that two days after the agreement was signed Russia signed another agreement-to send to China, enemy of Axis member Japan, $100,000,000 worth of military supplies. Same day word came from Istanbul that Turkey would fight Germany if German troops entered Bulgaria. Since Turkey has not lately talked so big, the London-Washington Axis surmised that Russia's left paw was trying to hold Germany out of Bulgaria (see p. 23} while Russia's right paw beckoned Germany into a friendly treaty...