Word: dobruja
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Rumania had accepted her destiny in the new Europe that Hitler plans (TIME, June 3). She will also lose Transylvania to Hungary and probably a part of the Dobruja to Bulgaria, which last week turned from Russia and began courting the Axis. Sofia newspapers yelled for revision of the Treaty of Neuilly. Bulgaria wants not only the Dobruja but an outlet to the Aegean Sea, through Greece. That could be worked, too, because last week Greek...
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...
...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...