FASCISTS' VICTIM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22515, 4 September 1936, Page 11

FASCISTS' VICTIM

RUMANIAN MINISTER KING'S PART IN DISMISSAL UNEASINESS IN BALKANS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received September 3. 5.35 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 3 The Sun-Herald news service states that although the new Rumanian Prime Minister, M. Tatarescu, declares that the Government's foreign policy is unchanged, M. Titulescu's fall has caused uneasiness in the Balkans, where it is feared that he was the victim of the "Fascist international."

Russia considers that King Carol's action threatens the peace of Europe. The Bucharest correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that M. Titulescu was the victim of a German intrigue. Three days prior to his dismissal, the Rumanian Fascist leader, M. Octavian Goga, returned to Bucharest from Berlin and reported to King Carol the result of confidential talks with Herr Hitler. Ho produced a copy of M. Titulescu's dossier as compiled by German secret police, alleging that M. Titulescu not only was negligent of Rumania's interests, but that while abroad he had discredited King Carol's political aims. King Carol immediately concocted the plan with M. Tatarescu for jettisoning M. Titulescu. The Soviet newspaper Izvestia states 'that it is still tod early to see whether the change will mean permanent orientation to Germany—equivalent to the suicide of Rumania —but in M. Titulescu Rumania loses her most influential politician and the cause of peaco loses one of its most active friends.