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...traveler, recently arrived in Cairo from Bulgaria, reported that country a-seethe with discontent. Said he: "If the Russians come the Bulgarian people will meet them with flowers from the men and kisses from the women. But until the Red Army is actually there the Bulgarian pro-German Government will choke any Soviet sentiment...
...Anyone could see that he would not be at large in a warring world without: 1) Puppet-Dictator Marshal Ion ("Red Dog") Antonescu's permission; 2) the Gestapo's connivance. Some could see a telltale in the way the Gestapo detained Princess Elise a week at the Bulgarian border as a British subject, then inexplicably let her follow her father to Ankara. The Princess' husband, Major Edward Boxhall, now in the War Office in London, formerly represented armament-makers Vickers-Armstrong in Rumania. The Prince himself formerly headed Rumania's powerful Steaua Romana...
Pressure from the Sky. The Allies are doing what they can to hasten Bulgarian defection. Last week U.S. bombers by day, R.A.F. bombers by night all but wrecked Sofia with a one-two punch. More than 3,000 lives were Sofia's sacrifice to alliance with the Axis. Bombs wiped out the center of the city, disrupted the telephone and water systems. Fires swept the town. After seven raids in two months (all from Allied air bases in Italy), the city's air-raid alarms had been destroyed; church bells had to be used as alerts. Bulgaria...
...unreconstructed Communist. Russia was their traditional protector, their only one if Germany should lose the war. Bulgaria could give her material aid: in Rumanian-held Bessarabia, now in the path of the Red Army, was a potential fifth column of over 150,000 Bulgars; in Yugoslavian Macedonia, Bulgarian troops were doing German guard duty against pro-Russian Marshal Tito's Partisans (some Bulgars had already joined his ranks...
This week newsmen in Istanbul reported that all telephone and telegraph connections with Bulgaria had been severed-but not soon enough to stop reports that the Bulgarian government had fallen. Still in power was the pro-German regency; but it was evident that pokes from Germany's enemies were telling...