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Last week Balcic was part of the 3,000 square miles of southern Dobruja claimed by Bulgaria and ceded to her, in all but final title, by Rumania (see map). The area was taken by Rumania in 1913 after Bulgaria was beaten in Balkan War II. It is a land of dry hills and windswept steppes, remarkably fertile considering its poor watering. Its population, according to Rumanian claims, is 77,000 Rumanians, 143,000 Bulgarians and 129,000 Turks...
...heavy rhetoric the Berlin radio summarized the results of the conference: "Germany today, less than ever, had reason to refrain from pointing out that the Reich is in favor of reasonable Bulgarian and Hungarian revision claims." The result of the Salzburg sales talks will not be made public until Bulgaria and Slovakia have had their turns...
Britain's comeback was feeble but ingenious. The Royal Navy picked up three Rumanian vessels at Port Said. And London hastily recognized "the fundamental justice" of Bulgaria's claims on Rumanian Dobruja...
Russian Angle. Not too subtle was Great Britain's sponsorship of the Dobruja claim. Russia would like to be the Big Brother and Sponsor No. 1 of Bulgaria, and Russia wants all (not just the old Bulgarian part) of the Dobruja for Bulgaria so that the two nations may establish a pan-Slavic frontier. Now that Britain is powerless to stop Hitler in the Balkans, anything that Russia can do to stop him is fine & dandy in London...
With Germany determined to settle the simmering Balkans, the Russian angle last week seemed to be to get them to boil over. Into circulation went rumors of a Russian-proposed three-nation block of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Rumania. Also rumored was a Russian note suggesting the desirability of a "popular Government" in Rumania. Fortnight ago the Moscow radio stopped criticizing Rumania, began defending her title to Transylvania. And last week Soviet agents began distributing propaganda tracts, appealing to all Balkan workers to follow the example of the proletarians in the three Baltic States and "liberate themselves" by joining...