 Little more than a month later , the British reconsidered . Winston Churchill aspired to recreate a Balkan Front comprising Yugoslavia , Greece and Turkey , and instructed Anthony Eden and Sir John Dill to resume negotiations with the Greek government . A meeting attended by Eden and the Greek leadership , including King George II , Prime Minister Alexandros <unk> — the successor of Metaxas , who had died on 29 January 1941 — and Papagos took place in Athens on 22 February , where they decided to send a British Empire expeditionary force . German troops had been massing in Romania and on 1 March , Wehrmacht forces began to move into Bulgaria . At the same time , the Bulgarian Army mobilised and took up positions along the Greek frontier . 
