| AGREEMENT WITH GREECE (acting for the Balkan Entente) recognized Bulgaria's right to rearm. By this time Bulgarian rearmament (in contravention of the treaties) had already made considerable headway, Germany supplying much of the material. This did not, however, imply acceptance of National Socialism by the Bulgarian government. On the contrary, the pro-Nazi and pro-Fascist organizations were outlawed in the same way as the other political parties. Moreover, the government readily accepted an Anglo-French loan of $10 million to support the rearmament program (Aug.). In the growing international tension of 1938–39 Bulgaria, like most of the lesser states, was pulled this way and that. Great efforts were made to bring it into the Balkan Entente, but this courting merely enabled the government to demand more insistently a revision of the treaties. Claims to the Dobrudja created rather tense relations between Romania and Bulgaria in the spring of 1939. | 3 |
