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...were again getting the call from the Nazis, and Locomotive Führer went to see Nazidom's Führer. The conference took place secretly in Berlin. Afterwards only terse communiqués took note of the visit, and all the world took it for granted that Bulgaria would soon join the scramble for the Axis bandwagon. But a whole week passed by, and Bulgaria did not sign. Boris had weighed the odds and come to a pretty solution-for the time being...
...Bulgaria there has always been real historic, linguistic and social sympathy for Russia, which not even the advent of Communism broke. Russia's entry into Poland was hailed as the beginning of Slavic self-determination. Bulgaria sent thanks to Moscow after she got Southern Dobruja from Rumania...
Since the collapse of major democratic influence in the Balkans, Bulgaria's alternative star had become the Axis. If heart dictated Moscow, head dictated Rome-Berlin. Bulgaria's is an agrarian economy -more than 80% of the 6,000,000 population is dependent on agriculture, compared with 3½% in all industries. Hungry Germany takes a large majority of Bulgarian produce, and supplies Bulgaria with the finished goods she needs. Furthermore the Axis was eager to press on Bulgaria's behalf her revisionist claims-a corridor to the Aegean through Greece, part of Macedonia from Yugoslavia, bits...
There was no question that the pull towards the Axis was greatest. But Boris would like to keep Bulgaria Bulgarian, and a crown on his head, as long as possible. He told Adolf Hitler that he was interested, but that he could not officially join the Axis until Russia did-or at least until Russia openly approved Bulgaria's doing so. This answer was a shrewd one. Boris could see the weaknesses in the Russian-German mariage de convenance; he could also see its urgency from the German point of view. He played urgency against weakness. Meantime, the Bulgarian...
Accordingly Yugoslavia talked as tough as she could. Yugoslavia pointedly remained outside last week's signing bee and the Skoplje newsorgan Glas Juge (Voice of the South) addressed a stern warning to Bulgaria, whose Parliament began talking of revisionist claims against Yugoslavia. ''The question of Macedonia was settled on the battlefields. Nevermore will the Valley of Vardar be detached from Yugoslavia." That strategic valley is a link in the most convenient route from central Europe to strategic Salonika...