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Translated by the week's news, this meant that the Nazi squeeze to make Bulgaria help Germany against Russia had tightened. Berlin denied having four divisions (60,000 men) in Bulgaria. Bulgaria mobilized 400,000 troops. Bulgaria and Russia kept exchanging stiff notes, and Premier Bogdan Filoff announced that his country would strictly adhere to its policy of friendship and support for the Axis. These heavy troop concentrations were not merely for show...
Because road discipline and staff work were good, troop movements were carried out swiftly. Supply, in a fluid battle where everything depended on the swift movement of fighting units, went on without a major hitch...
...observers thought that the Nazis were planning, not a Battle of the Black Sea, but a Battle for Batum and its oil. Remembering the swift air-&-sea invasion of Norway, they pointed out that Transcaucasia is only 700 miles across the Sea from Bulgaria, less than three hours by troop-carrying plane...
Things were even tenser by week's end. Some hundred U.S. citizens in Japan were refused permission by Japanese authorities to go home. Large numbers of Japanese civilians left China, the Philippines, Australia, Singapore. In Indo-China, where there are reported to be up to 100,000 Japanese troops, bubonic plague had broken out. Large Japanese troop concentrations were being made on Manchukuo's Russian border. Japanese Minister to Washington Kaname Wakasugi had telephoned an interview from Los Angeles to Tokyo's Nichi Nichi, explaining to his countrymen that the U.S. meant business, warned them...
...Army failed to heed the lessons of World War I, had no adequate plans for camps. Result: of $828,000,000 spent on 229 troop-housing projects, at least $100,000,000 was wasted. Said Senator Truman in an oral aside: "We used that $100,000,000 figure because the Army admitted that much. It will run two and a half times that much, easily...