Word: bulgarians
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...approached so fast last week that all but the troops involved were left behind the rush of events. It was spring-the season of German invasions of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark and Norway. One day the only Nazis in Bulgaria were a few scattered thousands in mufti. Next day Bulgarian Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff had signed with the Axis in Vienna and Bulgarian roads were jammed with mechanized Nazi columns. Within 48 hours the grey-green uniformed vanguard had rumbled 175 miles to villages in the Struma Valley a few miles from the mountainous Greek frontier which is only...
...Rumania, Bulgaria was hardly in position to say NO. But there were the usual diplomatic mummeries until Premier Filoff flew to Vienna, entered the florid Belvedere Palace, and took the pen offered him by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop under the eyes of Adolf Hitler himself. Then the Bulgarian Government's explanation-"the pressure of events"-seemed positively eloquent...
Over the Yugoslav railroads sealed freight trains carrying German war machinery kept rumbling toward the Bulgarian border. The German forces in Rumania were said to total 600,000, and across the early swollen Danube between Rumania and Bulgaria Nazi engineers had already thrown a network of pontoon bridges...
...boots glistening black under their raincoats, suddenly turned up at Sofia's best hotel. Later they stood at the hotel windows and stared at a mob of student patriots who were shouting slogans against Nazi occupation. At Sofia's biggest theatre Nazi diplomats gave a party for Bulgarian Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff and his Cabinet. What the Nazis showed their guests were films of Hitler's conquest of France-the same kind of films the Nazis showed in Norway, The Netherlands and Belgium a few days before taking those countries over...
...King George. Since Carol left Rumania she has been doing what ruling is left for the royal family to do, conceivably would have been willing to do her Nazi regents a favor. But in whatever fashion the peace overture might proceed, it seemed clear that Hitler's Bulgarian grab would soon be succeeded by a wide Eastern Mediterranean push. At week's end, the great question was whether Britain's Imperial Army of the Nile, whose whereabouts have been unreported since the fall of Bengasi, was being convoyed under the guns of newly fortified Lemnos across...