YUGOSLAVIA & HUNGARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 51, 1 March 1941, Page 9

YUGOSLAVIA & HUNGARY

RATIFIED-TREATY

UNWILLINGNESS TO ENGAGE ' Iff WAR

(British. Official Wireless.)

(Received March 1, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY.. February 23. The purp6se of the treaty which was (ratified yesterday between Yugoslavia and Hungary was explained when the pact was initialled in December, and there is no reason to suppose that the signatories have changed their conception of it as an instrument to ensure that the two neighbouring States should not find themselves unwillingly engaged "in a war against each other. "The Times" notes that the treaty, bears some resemblance to that recently concluded between Bulgaria and Turkey. Commenting on the fair words addressed by Germany to Yugoslavia at the time that every metnod of imposition and terrorisation was being employed against Bulgaria, "The Times" says: "It is obviously of the utmost strategic importance to the German army that the Yugoslav army should remain quiescent if an invasion of Bulgaria is to be successfully accom* plished and if the German forces are to be free to make, a right-wheel to« ( wards Albania. If the movement should be completed Yugoslavia could; be encircled. For the present, therefore, it must be Hitler's policy to pro* mise and cajole."' , "The Times" adds that there is rea* son to believe that, at the Berchtes* gaden talks the Yugoslav Ministers were neither favourably impressed by i Hitler's promises nor willing to pro* 'mise on their part that Yugoslavia would join the Nazis' new order.