Word: sofias
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...moment of the explosion he was upstairs, probably worrying about something. An English friend has said of him: "Nobody could really be so worried about his work as George always looks." When he entered the Pera Palace with an entourage of some 50 persons, whom he had brought from Sofia because Britain broke off relations with Bulgaria after the Nazi influx (TIME, March 10), it was typical of George William Rendel that he went straight upstairs to his room and began to check over personally his Legation's more important papers. Other members of the British group were signing...
...your Feb. 17 issue, under the heading "Wild Bill's Troubles," you state that El Pampero charged that Colonel Donovan was drunk . . . in connection with his mission in Sofia...
Previously the Nazis, guarding against R. A. F. bombing, had removed their Danube pontoon bridges by day, replaced them by night, transported huge quantities of materiel onto Bulgarian soil. Telephone communication to Sofia was cut except for Government business. There were widespread arrests of "men with British interests." Agents were buying millions of Bulgarian levas (1?) for the Nazi quartermaster corps. On the day the pact was signed Hitler's forces crossed the Danube by pontoon, ferry and train. The occupation was advertised to the Bulgarian public, thousands of whom are violently anti-Nazi and pro-Russian, by squadrons...
Fortnight ago, when husky U. S. Minister to Bulgaria George H. Earle asked a Sofia café band to play Tipperary, trouble broke loose. The Minister said afterwards that an anonymous German had heaved a champagne bottle at him and that he had punched the German in the face...
...SOFIA-The German war machine rolled through Sofia's blacked-out streets tonight amid a nationwide mobilization against any sudden British air attack after a parting warning by British Minister George Rendel that Bulgaria "may suffer" for her capitulation to Adolph Hitler...