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...Timisoara, just 20 miles from the Yugoslav frontier, a mechanized division took up quarters. Mechanized units set tled down for the winter at Turnu-Māgurele near the Bulgarian border, his toric jumping-off-place of the barbaric hordes who in past ages surged through the Rhodope Mountain passes into the fertile plains of Grecian Thrace. Across the Danube and two-and-one-half miles of marshland that separate Rumanian Giurgiu from Bulgarian Russe, Nazi engineers began to construct a gigantic ferry and pontoon bridge capable of supporting the heaviest equipment...
...Week he retired 27 high Army officers who had demanded that Bulgaria join the Axis and, in a stormy session of the Sobranje, Premier Bogdan Filoff silenced pro-Nazi deputies with a defiant "No foreign regimes for Bulgaria." With the arrival of the first Nazi units at the frontier, Bulgarian resolution seemed less firm, and foreign observers believed that under pressure the Government might concede the "futility" of armed resistance. Significantly enough, the Bulgarian Army was reported concentrated on the Turkish border...
...beautifully, Basso Baccaloni was rated by critics as the Met's best acquisition since Kirsten Flagstad. He is only 40, but needs no false belly. Just under six feet tall, he weighs a noble 320 Ib.-result of resigning himself to comedy and enjoying the cooking of his Bulgarian wife. Born in Rome, Salvatore Baccaloni sang as a boy in the Sistine Choir. When his voice changed, he resolved to become an architect, would have done so had not an old-time Metropolitan baritone persuaded him to take up singing again. Today Baccaloni knows all the major basso roles...
...word for General Papagos. In private life a patrician to his long fingertips, a foppish lover of fine horses and a patron of racing, his lifelong study has been a huge collection of military books. John Metaxas' name went upon the defense system thrown up along the Bulgarian and Yugoslav borders, which were later extended hastily down the Al banian. But in General Papagos' head rests knowledge of every gully and goat track not only in the Greek mountains but far beyond. Like his soldiers, whom amazed correspondents found toiling with out lanterns at midnight to repair bridges...
There was no question that the pull towards the Axis was greatest. But Boris would like to keep Bulgaria Bulgarian, and a crown on his head, as long as possible. He told Adolf Hitler that he was interested, but that he could not officially join the Axis until Russia did-or at least until Russia openly approved Bulgaria's doing so. This answer was a shrewd one. Boris could see the weaknesses in the Russian-German mariage de convenance; he could also see its urgency from the German point of view. He played urgency against weakness. Meantime, the Bulgarian...