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...entry into war has brought added unease. Having repeated that Turkey was neutral, partially deaf Ismet Inönü expediently turned his bad ear to German protests that his acceptance of Lend-Lease aid was unneutral. But he could hear clearly enough reports from Turkey's Bulgarian border that Germany was increasing her gasoline stocks and working feverishly on air bases in Bulgaria. Turkey awaited her Kismet (fate) and wondered about rumors that Chief of Staff General Fevzi Cakmak was partial to the Axis...
Bulgaria, too, fought sabotage. Police and military forces had to "reestablish" order as a result of Greek uprising in Bulgarian-occupied Macedonia...
...German Fleet of small submarines and torpedo boats, floated down the Danube or shipped in pieces by rail, was assembling last week in Bulgarian ports. Only rumor announced the news, but for once rumor had support. Berlin papers carried a photograph of no less a Nazi seaman than Grand Admiral Erich Raeder conversing with Bulgarian officers. The Russian Government sent a sharp note accusing its old friend Bulgaria not only of harboring Axis army and air force units, but of letting Axis warships gather in the ports of Varna and Burgas (on the Black Sea) and Ruschuk (on the Danube...
...ruled out was an attack on the Dardanelles. For months reports of German and Bulgarian troops concentrating on the Turkish border have kept the Ankara Government jumpy. A land offensive, synchronized with attacks by Admiral Raeder's fleet on Istanbul and the Italian Fleet on the Mediterranean end of the Straits, might win the Axis control of the Dardanelles, enable an Italian naval force to push into the Black...
...Same day the ungodly Russians tried to cash in on Christianity. The Moscow radio, in its Slovak, Dutch, Rumanian and Bulgarian broadcasts, charged the Nazis with "menacing the very existence of Christianity," called upon "all God-loving inhabitants of the occupied countries" to rise in defense of their religious freedom...