HUNGARY’S CLAIM.
SUPPORT BY POLAND. LONDON, Oct. 19. It is announced from Warsaw that the Polish Foreign Minister (Colonel Beck) has gone to Rumania to see King Carol and consult the Foreign Minister. It is believed he is seeking support for the transfer of Ruthenia (Czechoslovakia) to Hungary. Colonel Beck strongly opposed a free Ruthenia on the borders of the Polish Ukraine. The Times understands that the British Government supports Hungary’s claims against the Czechs based purely on ethnological grounds. The Warsaw correspondent of the Times says that Polish circles declare that in addition to attempting to secure King Carol’s support for the transfer of Ruthenia to Hungary, which would automatically give Poland the common frontier with Hungary she desires, Colonel Beck is also aiming at creating the necessary conditions for a new group consisting of Poland, Hungary and Rumania—a grouping based on community interests both political and economic in a region with a population exceeding 60.000,000. This, community of interests, it is emphasised, would not be directed against Germany, but Germany’s lukewarmness toward the scheme is indicated as it does not conforni with Berlin’s aims of forcible penetration in South-Eastern Europe.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 276, 20 October 1938, Page 11
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