Word: dobruja
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prudence and a word from Adolf Hitler kept it from moving in. Hitler ordered Rumania's King Carol to settle the claims of both Hungary and Bulgaria before Sept. 1. King Carol began to wriggle and stall. Last month, with Bulgaria's claim to Dobruja agreed to but still unfulfilled, Hungary's Premier Count Paul Teleki and Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky sent delegates to Turnu Severin in Rumania to present their claim to Transylvania. The delegates were told that Rumania would not consider ceding more than one-fifth of Transylvania. The delegates went home to Budapest...
Last week Balcic was part of the 3,000 square miles of southern Dobruja claimed by Bulgaria and ceded to her, in all but final title, by Rumania (see map). The area was taken by Rumania in 1913 after Bulgaria was beaten in Balkan War II. It is a land of dry hills and windswept steppes, remarkably fertile considering its poor watering. Its population, according to Rumanian claims, is 77,000 Rumanians, 143,000 Bulgarians and 129,000 Turks...
Ever since Adolf Hitler began redeeming minorities, Rumania has been meat for partitioning. The country was one of the most spectacular gainers after World War I. It is dotted like the Indies with islands -of foreigners. Big and solid islands are the Bulgarian minority in Dobruja and a Hungarian minority in southeast Transylvania, almost at dead centre of the country. Ten years ago the Rumanians admitted minorities of 1,425,000 Hungarians, 740,000 Germans, 725,000 Jews, 575,000 Ruthenians, 415,000 Russians, 315,000 Bulgarians, 290,000 Turks, 275,000 Gypsies...
...Bucovina. Three weeks ago Adolf Hitler summoned a Balkan conference at Salzburg at which it was made clear that the Axis, tolerating no disturbance in the Balkans, would support the claims of Hungary and Bulgaria against Rumania. It seemed to be agreed that the smaller operation, amputation of southern Dobruja, would be accomplished first...
...week's end Bucharest announced it had accepted "in principle" the cession of southern Dobruja. This week Bulgaria's Minister to Moscow Ivan Stamenoff flew home, occasioning suspicions that Russia was disturbed - presumably because Bulgaria was submitting to Axis pressure and not demanding the whole of Dobruja and therefore a common frontier with Russia. Bulgarians and Rumanians worked meantime on details of their Axis-sponsored agreement. One detail on which the Bulgarians were reported to have been softhearted: they agreed that the shrine where the heart of Queen Marie reposes should be surrounded by a little plot...