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...putting up a fight is military know-how. In 1914 the Serbs, though outnumbered in population twelve-to-one, in military strength at least three-to-two, repelled three separate Austrian offensives. When they were finally broken by Field Marshal August von Mackensen's heavy Austrian-German-Bulgarian drive in the autumn of 1915, they were riddled by typhus and so short of munitions that their northern Army ran out of cartridges during the retreat. The retreat was no rout. It was a desperate withdrawal across Albania, in which a few thousand men held Babuna Pass for several days...
...President was enormously busy, conferring, planning, driving his vast crew to later hours, harder tasks, heavier responsibilities. He froze Bulgarian credits, signed a bill easing inequities of the 1940 excess-profits-tax law, as early Treasury tax returns showed 58% larger than 1939's; signed a bill providing $375,000,000 to continue WPA until July 1, subjected 16 more critical war materials to export license control; slashed by 55% the Army Engineers' $366,808,925 recommendations for 619 juicy rivers-&-harbors pork-barrel projects. Twice at press conferences he endeavored to quiet fears that labor strikes were...
...Hitler's great southeastern push had already shoved some 150,000 Nazi troops and 1,700 bombers down through Bulgaria to the very edges of Greece and Turkey, only 60 miles from Salonika and only 100 miles from the Dardanelles. Greece and Turkey had rushed troops to their Bulgarian borders (Greece an estimated force of 90,000). Anthony Eden had flown from Turkey to Greece to learn, among other things, whether that heroic nation would defy the oncoming Nazis as it had defied the stumble-footed Italians. Before leaving Athens the Foreign Secretary had got enough assurances so that...
Previously the Nazis, guarding against R. A. F. bombing, had removed their Danube pontoon bridges by day, replaced them by night, transported huge quantities of materiel onto Bulgarian soil. Telephone communication to Sofia was cut except for Government business. There were widespread arrests of "men with British interests." Agents were buying millions of Bulgarian levas (1?) for the Nazi quartermaster corps. On the day the pact was signed Hitler's forces crossed the Danube by pontoon, ferry and train. The occupation was advertised to the Bulgarian public, thousands of whom are violently anti-Nazi and pro-Russian, by squadrons...
...Papen had practiced the standard Hitlerian strategy of showing Turkish officials a cinema of Germany's western conquests. Anthony Eden countered by exhibiting films of Britain's Libyan victories. Final upshot was that the Anglo-Turkish alliance was strongly reaffirmed. Turkey rushed additional troops to the Bulgarian border, and closed the Dardanelles to all but ships with special permits and Turkish naval pilots. Turkey "nullified" her two-week old non-aggression pact with Bulgaria, and many observers thought the Soviet Government rebuked the whole Axis with a statement that Russia was "not in a position to support Bulgaria...