NAZI INFLUENCE
SPREADING IN BALKANS » SENTIMENT IN BULGARIA. AXIS DIPLOMACY ACTIVE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 1. The appointment of new gauleiters (Nazi Party area leaders) in Transylvania and Banat and also German mayors and vice-mayors in 12 important towns provides the latest evidence of the Germanisation of Rumania. The appointments followed a cordial talk between the minority leader, Herr Schmidt, and M. Horiasima, the VicePremier. ' Italian and German pilots are taking over the training of the Rumanian air force. Many Italians have recently arrived in Rumania. The Bulgarian army today completed the occupation of Southern Dobruja. The Mayor of Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, is renaming three streets Hitler, Mussolini and Victor Emmanuel as a token of ’gratitude for the assistance of the Axis. The Press is increasingly pro-German, and Axis diplomacy is most active, insisting that only the support of the Axis will gain for Bulgaria ’an outlet to the Aegean Sea.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1940, Page 5
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