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After these two laboratory periods in the field, he studied military theory, held various Yugoslavian commands, was active in political bodies for the preservation of Balkan unity. He was sent as military attache to Sofia (1934) and Prague (1936), and is rumored to have been connected with underground movements working against Nazi influence in both Bulgaria and Czecho-Slovakia...
...bite. Thousands of troops were manning the Rumanian frontier. In Transylvania, Hungary was deliberately conscripting men of Rumanian ancestry to reduce Rumania's ethnic claim to the territory. In Ankara, it was reported that Hungary's Chief of Staff, Field Marshal Franz Szombathelyi, had recently been in Sofia trying to persuade Bulgaria to sign a joint ultimatum against Rumania...
Bulgaria. Bidding farewell to Antonescu, Hitler would continue along a monotonous stretch of the Danube past filthy half-Rumanian, half-Bulgarian villages to the confluence of the Danube and the Isker. A hundred miles up the Isker lies Sofia. There, if he cared to paddle his canoe against the current, he could proudly observe the full effects of Nazi propaganda. Though the Bulgars would probably refuse to fight against Russia, they are in a mood to tackle the Turks the moment Hitler says so. In the Grand Hotel, diplomats, students and businessmen gather every noon to discuss the coming attack...
Smuggled from Sofia by nervous Bulgar officials following reports of a Nazi plot to create an "incident," two-fisted George Earle declared: "German fortunes are definitely declining, but the death throes may be unprecedentedly violent...
Kept uninformed by Vichy censorship, the businessmen of French West Africa, Morocco and Algiers had little basis for comparison of their boom with recent booms in Oslo, Sofia, Bucharest, where tourism turned to swarms of Nazi soldiers...