BALKAN ENTENTES.
The King of the Greeks, before going to London from Paris, held diplomatic conversation* with the Rumanian, Turkish and Chechoslovakian Ministers and Ministers representing the Balkan Entente. French diplomatic writers attach ' great importance to .the fact. — Cable. Some of the Balkan countries belong to two Ententes. The older one, which was formed by France shortly after the Great War, consists of Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia. It was really formed by France, in the hope that the three countries would come to her aid in time of war.
On the other hand, the Balkan Entente-was formed principally for th« defence of the Balkan State* alone, in case they were attacked. It constats of Turkey, Rumania, Yugoslavia and Greece. Bulgaria does not belong, for. a* one of the defeated nations in the Great War. •he lost a lot of territory to other Balkan countries and wishes to pet at least a part of it hack. On the other hand. Turkey was also a defeated nation and she, too, lofit a lot of territory, but. strange to eay. it. was she who proposed the Balkan Entente in the first place. The difference between Turkey and Bulgaria, however., is the fact that the new Turkey of the Dictator Keinal
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 270, 13 November 1937, Page 3 (Supplement)
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