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...about that time Bulgaria's railroads began canceling passenger and freight schedules, clearing the way for troop movements. The Bulgarian Minister to Germany, Parvan Draganoff, hurried to Sofia on one of the few trains still running. What he had in his brief case may have been a demand, not only for the passage of German troops through Bulgaria, but also for Ivan Bagrianoff's reinstatement in the Cabinet. If Bagrianoff becomes Premier or Foreign Minister of Bulgaria, Bagrianoff and Bulgaria will be Hitler...
Next day Great Britain formally severed diplomatic relations with Rumania, on the ground that Germany was building an expeditionary force in that country. On behalf of Prime Minister Churchill's Government it was explained that this did not "necessarily" mean that oil fields and troop concentrations would be bombed. It merely meant that Britain "did not like the Rumanian Government and did not see the point of having anything more to do with it." Nevertheless, Britain "reserved the right of action...
After the Troop took part in the First Army Maneuvers near Ogdensburg, N. Y. last August, an Army inspector reported: "The officers are well qualified ... to properly command appropriate units in combat. . . . Practically all non-commissioned officers could take their places as officers . . . without additional training...
...Troop is ready for immediate combat service." To an Army badly in need of officers to train its rookies, such a unit is the answer to prayer...
Since then there have been three major reconnaissances of nerves. Adolf Hitler has learned by these (accomplished by troop movements, bombings, concentrations of barges, etc.) that the Balkans and Ireland would be comparative pushovers, that Britain would be nothing of the sort...