NOTE SENT BY BRITAIN TO RUMANIA

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 October 1946, Page 5

NOTE SENT BY BRITAIN TO RUMANIA

Recd. 8 p.m. London, Oct. 29. Commenting on the British Note to Rumania, the “Times” diplomatic correspondent says it is one of a series recently sent from London and Washington to the Governments of new central European regimes. All have protested against breaches of repeated promises that elections would be fair. Undoubtedly, the Notes have some general educative value in bringing' to the world’s notice some methods whereby new revolutionary regimes, with their hard Communist core, are maintaining power, but many diplomatic observers doubt whether the protests and admonitions can achieve the specific aim, which is to create improvement within the countries themselves. It is even asked whether too many protests from the West do not lead the regimes, which form part of the Soviet defensive system, to intensify their repressive discriminatory methods. Some observers argue there can be no free elections in the eastern border regions until relations between the Soviet and the West improve, but the Western Governments are loth to accept this argument. They take the view that promises are not being fulfilled, and they do not wish silence on their part to be taken as consent