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...small submarines and torpedo boats, floated down the Danube or shipped in pieces by rail, was assembling last week in Bulgarian ports. Only rumor announced the news, but for once rumor had support. Berlin papers carried a photograph of no less a Nazi seaman than Grand Admiral Erich Raeder conversing with Bulgarian officers. The Russian Government sent a sharp note accusing its old friend Bulgaria not only of harboring Axis army and air force units, but of letting Axis warships gather in the ports of Varna and Burgas (on the Black Sea) and Ruschuk (on the Danube...
...would be a large order for the Axis fleet to sweep Russia's cruisers, destroyers and submarines out of the Black Sea. But the Nazis would hardly have sent so big a shot as Admiral Raeder to Bulgaria for his health...
...ruled out was an attack on the Dardanelles. For months reports of German and Bulgarian troops concentrating on the Turkish border have kept the Ankara Government jumpy. A land offensive, synchronized with attacks by Admiral Raeder's fleet on Istanbul and the Italian Fleet on the Mediterranean end of the Straits, might win the Axis control of the Dardanelles, enable an Italian naval force to push into the Black...
...promise of U.S. aid in the Battle of the Atlantic. Doing their best to minimize the effectiveness of the speech, Germany and Italy charged that the U.S. was playing an "imperialistic" game, trying to prolong the war, to drag Latin America into it by the heels. Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, Nazis said, had answered Roosevelt before he spoke by declaring that U.S. convoys of British ships would...
...Germany felt about the treaty was brought home to the Japanese people by none other than Germany's Grand Admiral Erich Raeder. Timing an exclusive interview with Domei's Berlin Correspondent Susumu Ejiri so that it was published the day before President Franklin Roosevelt's fireside talk this week, the Admiral issued a warning to the U.S. that was, by inference, also a warning to Japan...