Berlin, Oct. 13.
Observers believe that Dr. Franz Chvalkovsky, Czech Foreign Minister visiting in the Reich, reached an important agreement with the German Foreign Minister, Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, this morning.
According to reports here, this agreement will serve to give full satisfaction to Germany's territorial ambitions. Therefore, Germany now apparently wishes to become the protector of new Czechoslovakia, whose land becomes the Reich's natural means of access to Rumania and south-eastern Europe, it is said.
German plans are opposed by the Polish scheme for a Polish-Hungaro-Roumanian bloc, which would form a barrier both to German and Soviet expansion.
Rumania's attitude of absolute fidelto the Little Entente is also regarded as an important factor as a bar to Hungarian aims—Havas,
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