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From bases in Italy, Lightning-escorted U.S. Mitchell (B25) medium bombers this week made their first raid on Sofia, vital Nazi rail hub, and left the Bulgarian capital's yards wreathed in smoke and flame. Crowed an Allied spokesman: "This successful opening of the Balkans offensive has far-reaching consequences...
...Greece reacted fiercely to the arrival of additional Bulgarian occupation forces. French sources reported that the underground had called a general strike, unleashed a new wave of sabotage. From London came word that Allied staff officers had returned to Cairo from three audacious days of conference with underground leaders. But around the Aegean port of Salonika, key to the Vardar Valley route to Central Europe, the Germans were strongly entrenched...
...regency would be established. The Filoff government announced the ascension of Boris' son, six-year-old Simeon II. The Bulgarian Army swore fealty to the boy King. Premier Filoff, according to Berlin's radio, summoned the Sobranye to approve a regency...
Panic swept through the satellite kingdoms of the Balkans like fire through an old-fashioned country hotel. Dimly in the smoke and confusion the watchers saw frantic Fascists rushing from window to window, seeking escape. In the Bulgarian wing the flames licked highest. In the Hungarian part there seemed still time; people were debating what to take with them, seizing the customary irrelevant knickknacks. The Rumanian section looked hopeless. Outside stood armed Germans, determined that none should save himself at the Führer's expense. Crouched silently among the Germans were tin Greeks, the Albanians, the anti-Axis...
...allowed his police to protect the Communists who recently assassinated four prominent pro-Nazis in Sofia. The supporting facts: 1) although Boris' police made a great show of placing Sofia in a state of siege, and searched many houses, the assassins were not arrested; 2) the Bulgarian people have made it abundantly clear that they want no part of Hitler's war with Russia...