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Military experts in Bucharest believed that the recent German troop movements were in preparation for a drive in the spring. There were, however, unconfirmed reports that German troops several days ago had entered Bulgaria and seized some mountain passes...
Other sources suggested that reports of Nazi occupation of Bulgaria are merely parts of a war of nerves. These sources said that Turkey promised to declare war on Germany if Nazi troops occupied Bulgaria and that Germany is aware of that pledge. They also said that military action in the area would not be feasible now because of weather conditions and the possibility of floods...
King Defies. Bulgaria, vital pawn in the giants' chess game, entered an uneasy new year. King Boris III, who prefers his English cousins any day to his Hohenzollern relatives, had told Adolf Hitler at Berlin that, rather than see German troops in his peasant kingdom, he would abdicate. Last 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...
...down across submissive Spain, at Gibraltar; 2) sending troops from Hitler's pool of 1,000,000 men in Austria (see map) to put some spine into the Italian armies now afield; 3) sending troops from the smaller pool in Rumania, to attack Greece from the rear across Bulgaria...
...With Bulgaria, Turkey and Russia not acquiescent, No. 3 was a difficult plan. No. 1 would be a large, tough mouthful. No. 2 seemed likeliest, if it could be executed in stuch a way as not to injure Italian morale...