Hitlers Balkan attack yesterday appeared less imminent than the wave of rumours from the Balkans suggested.
The reasons apparently were, firstly, the Germans had not yet moved sufficient mechanized and air forces from the western front eastward to enable them to break through the mountain bastions of south-east Europe on the same scale as in the Belgium and France smashes; Secondly, the Germans had not yet completed their "sabre rattling" in the Balkan area, although they already had secured the bloodless surrender of Rumania, and Bulgaria and now were pressing Yugoslavia, which was almost surrounded.
The Germans hoped to Yugoslavia to follow Bulgaria ample, which in turn would weaken Turkey s will. it was thought, and thus leave the way open to Greece—United Press,
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