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This week, when the press met him again, Mr. Hull made two points, both again demonstrating the world range of U.S. interests: 1) the Russian-Yugoslav friendship pact was encouraging (this little bouquet was the second handed the Soviet Union by the State Department in three weeks); 2) a statement by Marshal Henri Pétain, chief of France-that France's honor required that she take no action against a former ally-was important. The two diplomatic words, "encouraging" and "important," meant vastly more than they seemed to mean. Apparently U.S. diplomatic cultivation of Moscow and Vichy also...
...Germans struck. At 5:30 o'clock the German Minister to Athens, Viktor Prinz zu Erbach-Schönberg, presented a note to the Greek Government announcing that, because of the wicked British, it would be necessary to attack Greece. As usual the German High Command announced that Yugoslav and British troops having advanced against them, it had been necessary to "counter-attack...
...Germans' weakest point on the Bulgarian-Greek Front was supply-only one single-track railway. The R.A.F. and the Greek and Yugoslav Air Forces concentrated on supply lines, and daring Yugoslav engineers braved air attacks to impede traffic by sinking four cement-laden barges in the Danube, at the Iron Gate, where the channel is very narrow...
After long effort we finally succeeded in securing the cooperation of Yugoslavia by its adherence to the Tripartite Pact without having demanded anything whatsoever of the Yugoslav nation except that it take its part in the reconstruction of a new order in Europe...
...Churchill and Britain. . . . Members and officers of the German Embassy, employes of our consulates in Yugoslavia, were daily subjected to the most humiliating attacks. The German schools, exactly as in Poland, were laid in ruins by bandits. Innumerable German nationals were kidnapped and attacked by Yugoslavs and some even were killed. In addition, Yugoslavia for weeks has planned a general mobilization of its Army in great secrecy. This is the answer to my eight-year-long effort to bring about closer cooperation and friendship with the Yugoslav people, a task that I have pursued most fastidiously...