Word: bulgaria
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...quit the Balkan Entente. This bloc, consisting of Rumania, Turkey, Greece and Yugoslavia, to which King Carol adhered even after his tumble into the Nazi camp, has in general been favorable to British and Russian interests. He had a good reason: the Entente served as a check on Bulgaria, which wants the Rumanian province of Dobruja. Hungary, which covets Rumanian Transylvania, last week opened a screaming press attack on Rumania because of Carol's "shifty" policy toward the Axis, to which Hungary clings. Finally, Russia handed King Carol a note stressing the desirability of a "popular Government" in Rumania...
...From Rumania, Bulgaria, backed by Russia, wants the southern Dobruja without delay...
Aviator Clyde Edward Pangborn, who flew around the world with Hugh Herndon Jr. in 1931, offered his services to the Canadian Government in Ottawa. In Sofia, where his father, George H. Earle, onetime Pennsylvania Governor, is Minister to Bulgaria, Son George H. IV, 23, decided to return to the U. S. to join the air force. "To awaken America to her own desperate situation before it's too late," mustachioed Sculptor Stuart Benson, 63, onetime ambulance driver with the American Field Service in France, planned to tour the U. S., show films of the war zones. In Hollywood, Ecdysiast...
...German protection (TIME, July 1). Both Berlin and Rome professed disinterest in what Russia was doing, blamed any agitation about it on a British plot to open an eastern front. Germany insisted that she would not be drawn into any Balkan adventure now and Italy told Hungary and Bulgaria not to press their claims against Rumania. But Berlin hinted darkly that present conditions were only temporary. The last thing Germany could tolerate would be permanent Russian control of the mouth of the Danube...
Rumania had accepted her destiny in the new Europe that Hitler plans (TIME, June 3). She will also lose Transylvania to Hungary and probably a part of the Dobruja to Bulgaria, which last week turned from Russia and began courting the Axis. Sofia newspapers yelled for revision of the Treaty of Neuilly. Bulgaria wants not only the Dobruja but an outlet to the Aegean Sea, through Greece. That could be worked, too, because last week Greek...