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...Rumanians are also worried by their neighbors and territorial rivals, Hungary and Bulgaria. According to one report, Dictator Antonescu's nephew, Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Mihai Antonescu, recently threatened to resign with the entire Cabinet unless enough Rumanian troops were withdrawn from Russia to defend the Bulgarian frontier. Rumania has already lost part of Transylvania to Hungary...
...Bulgarian Plots. Last week, London heard rumors that Turkey had declared war on: 1) Germany, 2) Bulgaria. All that happened was that the Turko-Bulgarian frontier was closed and the Turkish press suddenly began to denounce Bulgaria. The Turks suspect that Boris was trying to squirm out of his alliance with Hitler and butter up the Allies; the Bulgars fear that the Turks are preparing to grab off Thrace...
...Bulgaria's bald, 49-year-old King Boris III journeyed last week to Adolf Hitler's general headquarters. Hitler reportedly demanded: 1) six Bulgarian divisions for the defense of the Black and Aegean Sea coasts; 2) five additional Bulgarian divisions to replace an equal number of Germans in Serbia, thus easing Hitler's critical war manpower situation; 3) curfews, civilian evacuations and other extraordinary measures in Bulgaria's coastal areas. The Germans apparently expected an invasion through Bulgaria into middle Europe. Boris also understood the possibility. Bulgarians were asked "to endure with patience and calmness...
...Colonial Secretary Oliver Stanley announced last week that the Government would allow 29,000 Bulgarian, Hungarian and Rumanian Jews to enter Palestine. His report was received in England with mixed rejoicing and fury. To demands that the quota be enlarged, Stanley replied: "Stability in the Middle East [i.e., the Arabs] must be considered." > A pamphlet, Let My People Go, by rapier-minded, humanitarian Victor Gollancz, offered evidence that most of Europe's Jews will soon be dead unless something is done. Golancz pointed out that promises of postwar retribution "do not save lives," suggested release and exchange of Jews...
When the curtain rises on the post-war world the scene may be something like this: 6,000,000 German soldiers fleeing in disorder; 5,000,000 foreign workers and prisoners of war abandoning Germany; 2,000,000 Hungarian, Rumanian, Bulgarian and Spanish soldiers pouring home from the Eastern front; 3,000,000 Poles straggling back to their wasted territory; 50,000,000 Soviet citizens surging back into western Russia...