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...lingering around the Kremlin in case Silent Joe Stalin should decide to speak encouragingly. Under Field Marshal Fevsi Cakmak, comrade under fire of the late great Kamal Ataturk and Commander in Chief of the Turkish Army, 400,000 troops crowded trains running to Adrianople, a few miles from the Bulgarian frontier. The press expressed measured defiance. "Turkey," wrote the Government Party organ Ulus, "has no intention of changing existing friendships, is determined to defend her independence and still is peacefully inclined...
Little trouble was anticipated in Bulgaria aside from a lack of highways, and Axis "experts" had Bulgarian peasants busy last week widening and repairing the dirt roads...
...five days the bounding warrior reviewed his troops along the Po. He stood on platforms, in automobiles, on hills. He reviewed veterans and boys who had been trained from the age of six. He showed Italy's might before the German, Japanese and Spanish Ambassadors, the Hungarian, Bulgarian and Rumanian Ministers. He made no speeches, just shouted over and over: "We are ready...
...passes leads through the mountains of Transylvania into the plain of the lower Danube, the route General von Falkenhayn took when he conquered Rumania in 1916. But the main route to Istanbul leads through Belgrade to Nish and thence through Sofia and down through the rich Bulgarian plain and the Maritsa Valley. From Nish through another pass is a route down the Vardar River to Salonika on the Aegean, a port which would serve as one terminus of an alternate route, by sea, through Suez to the East...
Between Sofia and Bucharest a commuter sped last week-heavy Victor Cadere, Rumanian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, close friend of King Carol II. He was chosen to negotiate the Bulgarian claims because as Ambassador to Belgrade he had earned the warm friendship of the then Bulgarian Ambassador, Ivan Popoff, who is now Bulgaria's Foreign Minister. From Popoff to his King, from King to Popoff, Ambassador Cadere went, now with a warning, now with a concession, begging the retention of the important city of Silistra, asking reparations for public works. At a moment when Rumania seemed to stiffen, Hungary ominously...