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Meanwhile, not only had Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey been emboldened (with sardonic Russia's encouragement, too) to stand off the Axis, but the war itself, the Germans' war, was increasingly unpopular in Italy. Last week's war budget of 14,000,000,000 lire with 700,000,000 additional for home relief, is not an immense sum in real money (total: $735,000,000). But it is a lot to a poor country where a soldier's wife gets only 1.20 lire (five cents) per day allowance and bread costs 1.50 lire a pound. General Papagos...
...SOFIA, Bulgaria--The Athens radio reported tonight that disorders "provoked by non-Fascist elements" in Italy are continuing and many anti-Fascists have been executed
...Axis partner apparently hesitated to send aid to the weaker partner for much the same reason that the Allies could not help the Lowlands in time: to do so might make enemies out of friends. German diplomacy worked to incorporate Yugoslavia in its Axis Order, to soothe Turkey and Bulgaria. In Spain Great Britain won a diplomatic victory, signed a clearing agreement that probably contained a secret understanding providing for the return to Spain of Gibraltar after the war. Thus, for the time being at least, was secured Britain's second naval fortress...
Outside the capital, civil war came next. At Craiova and Turnu-Severin, Army and Iron Guard battalions battled in the streets in open warfare. At Brasov the Iron Guard captured the telephone exchange and post office, was routed in bloody counter-attacks by the Army. From Bulgaria came word of artillery fire in the Rumanian Danube port of Giurgiu...
...send convoyed ships that far? I think the British can take care of them the rest of the way. If we showed that we were in this war by such a step, not only the Irish but everyone else would take notice. Turkey's attitude would be changed. Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Spain would remain stiffened in opposition to Hitler...