Word: dobruja
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This might well mean that Bulgaria, in return for a promise that Rumania will some day give her back at least part of the Dobruja region which she lost after World War I, will not offer obstacles to the Allies or the Turks if they want to go up and help Rumania fight Hitler-Stalin...
...Balkan nation which Russia is rumored to be egging on to regain the territory of Dobruja from Rumania...
...what everybody knew privately anyway-that "our country is not neutral, but is merely out of the war." Rumor had it that the Foreign Minister was cooking up a deal between Bulgaria and Rumania whereby King Carol would appease King Boris by handing back a small strip of the Dobruja territory Bulgaria has long demanded. Thereafter Bulgaria would join the Entente...
...preparedness against threats from the north and east is, for King Carol, no more important than lining up his neighbors on the west and south. For Rumania was a gainer by the last war. Not only does Russia want back Bessarabia, but Hungary wants back Transylvania, Bulgaria wants back Dobruja-Rumania's northeast, northwest and southern provinces. Security against his Balkan neighbors until after the Red menace is past is the object of King Carol's earnest conversations with Regent Prince Paul of Yugoslavia and of next month's meeting of the Balkan Entente (Rumania, Yugoslavia, Greece...
...badly feared presence of Soviet Russia on Hungary's northeast border is a controlling factor in the present tentative Balkan lineup. If that line-up holds and Rumania has to fight Russia, Hungary will not grab for Transylvania, nor Bulgaria for Dobruja. Hungary may even remain benevolently neutral and let Italian and Yugoslav war supplies cross into Rumania. Never were the Balkans more united than they seemed last week against Russia. A cordial exchange even took place between Bulgaria and her old enemy Turkey...