WATCH THE BALKANS
DANGER OF SUDDEN ATTACK AMBASSADOR'S WARNING The necessity for alertness, which* is plain to the Balkan States, against the danger of a sucklen -German at-* taclc, is given added point by ;i, warning voiced in London .by Sir Neville Henderson, who Ambassador in Berlin ties broke out. "Watch the Balkans," he says. "Although our eyes are turned at present to north-east Europe, it is likely that our attention will soon be diverted again to the south-east." Indications that the Allies are taking all precautions are contained in: Belgian reports that British naval units are assembling in the Aegean,' Sea, near the Dardanelles. Other observers believe that Italy cannot have any illusions about what would happen if she unexpectedly threw in her weight openly on theside of Germany, and that the reported Allied Fleet movements in the Mediterranean and Aegean Seascannot fail to strengthen Signor Mussolini's belief in the wisdom of Italian neutrality. 1 lie 1 urk'.sh newspaper Tan say>" that neutrals have this choice—toaccept bassa'age under Germany or'o march with the Allies; '
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 163, 22 May 1940, Page 8
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