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AXIS BALKAN POLICY

COMMUNIST ATTACK

MANIFESTO IN SOFIA

GERMANY ATTACKED

ATTEMPT TO WOO BULGARIA

LONDON, August 13.

The Sofia correspondent of "The Times" says that a Bulgarian Communist Party manifesto which was dictated from Moscow conveys the first official Communist attack against the Balkan policy of the Axis Powers. It violently attacks German attempts to woo Bulgaria by involving her in the Axis with promises of enlarging her territory at the expense of Yugoslavia. The Bulgarian Communists announce that the purpose of the manifesto is to prevent a large central Balkan land block falling under the dominion of Italy.

The manifesto alleges that Professor Tsankoff, leader of the Bulgarian, Macedonians, last week returned from Berlin with a plan for an autonomous Macedonia under the influence of Rome. The new State would include portions of Greece, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia, thus linking up with an Albania enlarged to include slabs of Grecian, Janina and southern Yugoslavia, giving Italy a greatly-increased coastline in the east Mediterranean. The manifesto warns Bulgarians and Macedonians that they are both part of the great brotherhood of Slavs, and says that eventually the Macedonians Will get autonomy, but never in the \ Latin orbit. "The Times " correspondent learns officially that Bulgaria told Rumania that she would not accept a Dobruja settlement which did not give her the 1912 frontier, including Silistra, to which the Rumanians object. The Bulgarians added that they would not accept the invitation to confer at Craiova unless this frontier were conceded.

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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 39, 14 August 1940, Page 9

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AXIS BALKAN POLICY Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 39, 14 August 1940, Page 9

AXIS BALKAN POLICY Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 39, 14 August 1940, Page 9