USE OF RUMANIA AS ENEMY BASE

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 120, 14 February 1941, Page 7

USE OF RUMANIA AS ENEMY BASE

Text Of The British Note (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 12. Replying to a question in the House of Commons whether he could make any statement of the reasons for the withdrawal from Bucharest of the British Minister and his staff,_ the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, said:— “Perhaps I may best answer the question by quoting from the text of tlie Note addressed on my instructions by the British Minister at Bucharest to the head of the Rumanian Government. It is as follows: ■ it has become abundantly evident that this country’s Government, which you have directed for the past six months, has become entirely dependent OU Germany. Not only actual facts, but also numerous statements published by yourself, confirm this. Mouths ago you in-, formed me that a small number ot German troops were arriving in Rumania in order to instruct tlie Rumanian army in modern method' of warfare, and that necessary equipment likewise was being dispatched from Germany for tlie uarmament of the Rumanian troops. Some instruction, no doubt, las been imparted, but an essential (ie'Oiopment is that the German High Command is building up in Rumania all tlie elements of an expeditionary force and concentrating at various strategic points large supplies of munitions and oil fuel. Rumanian territory is thus being used as a military base, in furtherance of Germany’s plans for the prosecution of. the war. These measures are being taken without one word of dissent from you. In these • ireumstances His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom ha' decided to recall me and to withdraw the diplomatic mission ami Consular officers under my control.