SHADOW OF NAZIS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 229, 26 August 1940, Page 7

SHADOW OF NAZIS

HUNGARIAN CLAIMS. PREVENTING SETTLEMENT, (United Prees Association —By Electric 1 eiegrapn —Copying!) l. i (British Official Wireless!) Received August 26, 11.18 a.m. Rugby, A-ug. 25. Diplomatic observers in London are not surprised at tlie setback which the negotiations between Hungary and Rumania on Hungary’s territorial claims have encountered. The experience of the League of Nations when seeking a tranquil settlement of the relations between Hungary and Rumania in the years before an ascendant Hitlerism had struck at the foundations of international confidence and of peaceful international order proved the intractability of the conflicting claims of these two States. A just and wise settlement, especially once territorial issues were openly raised, could only be looked for in an atmosphere in which the goodwill of the two parties was combined with a common desire to rejyeet the superior interest of a European community. in the Danubian area, as elsewhere, British diplomacy lias worked unceasingly lor the creation or such! an atmospnere, but the present negotiations over Transylvania have a different origin. They have been entered upon at a moment of political upheaval when .the lorces of anarchy have temporarily disrupted European order, iney have been undertaken, it is - generally admitted, at the holiest of tue iNazis. it would be strange if tnose who have proved themselves incapable of honouring any agreement to Which they have subscribed, and lor whom settlements solemnly signed and sealed are no more than steppingstones to iresh aggression, should succeed in sponsoring ail agreement between others or in inspiring them to settle a question whicu rvazi propaganda itseu has not scrupled to embitter.

(j lider such asupicos it is inevitable that each party should seek to exjhoit the lavours it calculated or hopeu it might receive from Berlin. It remains to ue seen if the Hungarians have not presumed too far ill tneir tactics, at any rate in contrast to those of the Bulgarian Goverumeut which, conlmmg itself to legitimate aspirations, has been' able to secure a restitution winch has been warmly welcomed m London,