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Show RUSS OKEH SEEN ON BALKAN MOVE BEI.GRADE, Yugoslavia, Jan. 6 W German official quarters here gave currency Monday to report! soviet Russia had agreed that the Germans- should enter and take over Bulgarian territory. These reports were not confirmed con-firmed In Russian, Bulgarian, Rumanian Ru-manian or Turkish sources. Vow Given on Finland In exchange for the soviet acquiescence, ac-quiescence, the German sources said, the Russians received from Berlin an understanding thnt Germany Ger-many would not oppose any Russian Rus-sian policy with respect to Finland or to Moldavia, the section of Rumania Ru-mania adjoining Bessarabia, already al-ready annexed by Russia. These sources said the Germans were not likely to move Into Bulgaria, Bul-garia, however, until either a heavy freeze or a thaw makes it easy to cross the Danube from Rumania. Ru-mania. One factor entering into the Bulgarian situation, in the belief of informed observers. Is the fact that Clng Boris' consort. Queen Ioanna (Glovanna) is the daughter daugh-ter of King Vlttorio Emanuele of Italy. This would Indicate that Germany would be unlikely to make any move with regard to Bulgaria without consultation with the. Italian throne and this may-prove may-prove a deterrent to abrupt measures.) meas-ures.) Germans State Plans Here is the view of German sources on what is happening and what will hannen In th Rjllklini if their plans go well: Bulgarian Premier Bogdan Phil-off, Phil-off, they asserted, already has seen German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbcntrop and told him that If Russia agreed to German entry into Bulgaria there was nothing the little kingdom could do. There"1 would be no resistance, Philoff was represented as saying. When a Danube crossing is feasible, feas-ible, said these sources, the Germans Ger-mans will go through Bulgaria to the Greek frontier. (A dispatch from Sofia, the Bulgarian Bul-garian capital, today said frontier points reported "all normal" on the Danube frontier. There was said to be no indication that German Ger-man troops along the Danube were making any preparations ' for a crossing, which would require days, perhaps weeks.) The Germans would enter Greece, the informants went on, only if the British show continued signs of making Greece their starting point for a drive northward through the Balkans. |