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Until the spring of 1934, Boris was just another playful Balkan monarch. He liked most of all the boyish pastime of playing with railroad trains - real ones. His royal hobby became so famous that Yugoslav engineers named him Locomotive Führer Honoris Causa. Then in 1934 the Bulgarian Army abolished Parliament and established Boris as the somewhat bewildered figurehead of a military dictatorship. Boris buckled down to serious work and within a year made it just plain dictatorship, with the Army very much in the background. He had married Princess Giovanna, daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele...
...alternative star had become the Axis. If heart dictated Moscow, head dictated Rome-Berlin. Bulgaria's is an agrarian economy -more than 80% of the 6,000,000 population is dependent on agriculture, compared with 3½% in all industries. Hungry Germany takes a large majority of Bulgarian produce, and supplies Bulgaria with the finished goods she needs. Furthermore the Axis was eager to press on Bulgaria's behalf her revisionist claims-a corridor to the Aegean through Greece, part of Macedonia from Yugoslavia, bits of Thrace from Turkey...
BERLIN-Authorized German quarters surprised foreign observers today by announcing that Bulgarian adherence to the German-Italian-Japanese alliance is not expected soon...
Technocrats since the campaign began, these Zanics offer their usual mad stunts. Brow-battering, car-tweaking, nose-picking Moc sings hoarse opera. And Mike, the guy with a dinosaur's build and Minnie Mouse's laryux, is anointed Bulgarian Golden Gloves Champ after a tooth and claw battle with Curley, the tapirnosed bald head. And all this goes on amidst rhumbas and tangoes by a red-hot Pan-American band! The more cultured group will be nauseated by rough and ready buffoonery which makes the Marx Brothers seem subtle by comparison. But if you like your humor simple and sincere...
Greece has a Metaxas Line, strong along the Bulgarian frontier, more sketchy along the Albanian, where it was not needed until Italy blitzkrieged that little kingdom on Good Friday, 1939. Greece has some 435 pieces of field artillery of all types, including mountain guns. With these, and other ill-assorted German and French rifles and machine guns, she set out to try to stem the advance of at least 200,000 well-equipped, motorized Italians, including one division of specialized Alpini, whose first course would be down rugged mountain troughs. Two main immediate pushes seemed to be on the cards...