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...becoming a symbol of freedom to all the silent people of the Balkans. The Germans and Italians have increased their armies in Yugoslavia to 400,000. They have ordered peasants to grow no tall crops within 500 yards of rail lines or main roads. It required five Nazified Bulgarian divisions to reopen the main railway from Nish to Salonika, over which Germany sends small submarines, piecemeal, to the Mediterranean...
...further encouraged by local distributors who said it had a "pervading tropical fragrance with a come-hither accent." The distributors have yet to persuade U.S. perfume brewers, who fall into two general classes, 1) the topnotchers,. who claim there is no adequate substitute for their dwindling hoards of French, Bulgarian, Chinese and Tibetan essences, and 2) volume producers who claim that any hew product will have to be more than good to compete with domestic substitutes and synthetics already available...
Draja Mihailovich's fiery army of 145-150,000 former Yugoslav regulars, Serb Chetnik guerrillas, Croats, Slovenes, Jews, Bulgarian and Austrian deserters, has often been called a guerrilla force. It usually fights in small, separated groups like guerrillas. But General Mihailovich has a radio sending station. His forces have countless portable radio receiving sets of the former Yugoslav Army. His war is not impromptu guerrilla warfare. It is an organized, continuous raiding operation-mobile, swift, deceptive-which in years to come will undoubtedly rank as an epic...
...Axis in Libya. There were constant reports of German massing in Bulgaria, just across the Turkish frontier. The Allies were alarmed by reports that Turkey, on peaceful assurances from Germany, had signed a treaty with Germany and Bulgaria calling for the rebuilding of bridges across the Turkish-Bulgarian border which had been removed during Germany's Balkan advance last spring...
...remarkable drug for holding down chronic symptoms is Bulgarian belladonna, steeped in white wine. (An American substitute is now available.) In many cases the drug relieves insomnia, helps build up strength, improves speech...