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...people (see FOREIGN NEWS). For the Wehrmacht, defections in the Balkans meant disaster at astronomically compounded interest: 22 German divisions on the Rumanian front were doomed to defeat, most of them to death or capture; 25 Rumanian divisions which had been helping the Nazis turned against them. Twelve Bulgarian divisions which had eased the German load in Yugoslavia and Greece had to pull out. The Germans had 14 to 16 divisions in those countries; the bulk of them could never get back to the Reich...
...bolt from the losing side jolted other satellite fence-sitters: ¶Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Parvan Draganov publicly repeated Premier Ivan Bagrianoffs recent peace bid (TIME, Aug. 28). Through emissaries in Istanbul, Sofia notified London and Washington that it was ready to surrender. Probable terms: withdrawal of Bulgarian troops in Greece and Yugoslavia, disarming of the few German troops still in Bulgaria. ¶Hungary's astute Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, dissolved all political parties (the only undissolved parties in Hungary are pro-Nazi), called an emergency cabinet meeting, received an emergency visitor from the Reich, Foreign Minister Joachim...
Said Bagrianoff: "The majority of the Bulgarian people never wanted to interfere in a large-scale conflict between great powers. The Government declares it fully recognizes this. It is determined to remove all obstacles that stand in the way of the Bulgarian people's love for peace...
...Soviet Union. Said the same official: "Moscow should have informed us of an understanding with Bulgaria. It did not. So, officially, we do not know anything about it. But several indications have come to us, mainly from Ankara, pointing to the probability of the existence of a Soviet-Bulgarian understanding...
Armand Tokatyan, Bulgarian-born of Armenian parents, Egyptian-raised, Italian-trained, U.S.-naturalized tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, protested in fluent English ("My wife is highly emotional, selfish, headstrong, insanely jealous, quarrelsome and irresponsible") against his better half's plea for $250 weekly alimony pending separation. He said she once told him: "Your voice stinks." He also said, while denying various charges, that when a policewoman pinched him at Macy's lingerie counter, it was not because he had pinched her first...