RUMANIA AND HUNGARY

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23109, 27 August 1940, Page 7

RUMANIA AND HUNGARY

CONFERENCE TO BE RESUMED BOTH COUNTRIES NEARLY MOBILISED (Received August 2C, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, August 25. An .Associated Press message from Budapest states that it '-.is been officially announced that the conference between Hungary and Rumania on the cession of Transylvania will be resumed on Wednesday, as a result of strong pressure by the Axis Powers. The German and Italian ministers at Budapest conferred with the Hungarian Foreign Minister (Count Csaky) and the Rumanian Minister to HunThe Hungarian press reveals that Hungary is-in no way diminishing her demands for her rights which, it is staled, she will defend by force, if necessary. Attacks have been made in the Hungarian press on Rumania, which is accused of failing to co-operate in the spirit of goodwill shown by the Axis Powers. Hungary, it was stated, would stand by its demands. The Balkans correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that as a result of the Rumanian-Hungarian breakdown, both countries are nearly mobilised. The Hungarian frontier is bristling with troops. The Hungarian Government and press assert that Hungary will stand firm in her territorial demands. NO SURPRISE IX LONDON COLLAPSE OF TALKS INEVITABLE (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY, August 25. Diplomatic observers in London are not surprised at the set-back which the negotiations between Hungary and Rumania, on Hungary's territorial claims, have encountered. The experience of the League of Nations when seeking a tranc|uilisation of the relations between Hungary and Rumania in the years before the ascendancy of llitlerlsni had struck at the foundations of international conference arid of peaceful international order, proved the intractability of the conflicting claims of these two Slates. A just and wise settlement, especially once territorial issues were openly raised, could only be looked for in aft atmosphere in which the goodwill of the two parties was combined with a common desire to respect the superior interest of a European community. In the Danubian area, as elsewhere, British diplomacy worked unceasingly for the creation of such an atmosphere, but the present negotiations over Transylvania have a different origin. They have been entered upon at a moment Of political upheaval when the forces of anarchy have temporarily disrupted European order. They have been undertaken, it is generally admitted, at the behest of the Nazis. It would be strange if those who have proved themselves incapable of honouring any agreements to which they subscribed and for whom settlements solemnly signed and sealed are no more than stepping stones to fresh aggression, should succeed in sponsorins an agreement between others, or in inspiring them to settle a question which Nazi propaganda itself has not scrupled to embitter. _ . Under such auspices it was inevitable (hat carh party should seek m rxpioit the favours it calculated or hoped it might receive Imm Berlin. It rpma'ns to be seen if the Hungarians