Word: bulgaria
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...procedure-the sudden formation of a block of ice in southeastern Europe, where before there had just been chilly water-was not pleasant for Britain and her friends to contemplate. The New Order was actually becoming a reality, the Drang nach Osten was dranging. At week's end Bulgaria was maneuvering for its life, Yugoslavia was encircled for all practical purposes, Russia was a not too encouraging enigma, and only Greece and Turkey seemed to have sufficient gumption to resist...
...continent of Europe last week, save Sweden's Gustaf, there was only one King who could call his crown his own. This was Boris III of Bulgaria. And among Europe's hurrying traders in sovereignty, this sovereign's was perhaps the most ticklish predicament of all, his footwork perhaps the neatest...
...days well-informed German private sources and unofficial Wilhelstrasse opinion had understood that preparations had been completed for Bulgaria to sign the pact the middle of this week. The reports never were confirmed officially...
...Ramon Serrano Suner went on to Berchtesgaden for his third visit to Big Boss Hitler within two months. Italy's Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano met him at Salzburg. Day earlier Bulgaria's Tsar Boris III secretly visited the Fuhrer in Berlin. With so much diplomatic activity, and with the air war over Britain and the sea war in the Atlantic and Mediterranean gaining fury, the Second World War moved inexorably toward a new and greater climax...
...Turkey jilted Germany for the Allies, was reported on a shooting party with Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Italy's Count Galeazzo Ciano. (This was denied in Berlin.) Whatever plans the Axis had for Turkey in the future, the threat of German action through Bulgaria, if Turkey should help Greece, was enough to keep Turkey precariously neutral last week. President Inönü made a firm speech saying that his country would "continue faithful to our friendships and alliances" (Turkey is not committed to help Greece), devoted three paragraphs to the value of friendship...