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> A popular movement would overthrow the monarchy, establish a leftist, anti-German government. Europe's listening posts described the temper of Bulgaria's people as ugly. Peace demonstrators marched in Sofia's streets, stoned the Nazi Embassy.
> The country seemed destined to become a battlefield. To keep their hold and ensure a pro-Nazi regime, the Germans might send in an army of occupation; the Allies might counter with an invasion of the Balkans; watchful opportunist Turkey might now enter the war on the Allied side. Cabled New York Timesman Ray Brock through the Turkish censorship: "The time might come when the Turks would consider it necessary to march into the Balkans in order to protect Turkey's frontiers and security."
In World War I Bulgaria was the first of the Central Powers to crack. Less than two months later, Germany surrendered.