U.S.S.R. Claim to Bessarabia Feared in France.
Paris, July 25.
Will a new territorial dispute di turb the already shattered peace of Europe? Such is the question asked by several Paris dailies to-day in commenting. upon a recent article of the Soviet newspaper "Pravda" which complained of the policies followed by Rumania and which was interpreted as again putting forward the vince of Bessarabia, which was formerly under Russian administration, was occupied by Rumanian. forces after the World War.
The Union of Bessarabia with Rumania was ratified by the signatories of the Treaty of Versailles in 1920, but the Soviet Union did not recognize the validity*of this annexation.
Studying, the question in Mme. Genevieve Tabouis 1934, in London, the Rumanian Foreign -Minister M Nicholas Titulesco, obtained from the Soviet Foreign Commissar, M. Maxim Litvinov, a statement in which both statesmen recognized that Bessarabia belonged to Rumania, as al' the authority in its territory was for the time being held by Rumanians. It is easy to see how feeble is the title of possession created by this document and how much Rumanians must praise good rela-se tions with U.S.S.R: it is- generally believed," Mme. Tabouis concludes, "that the new attitude of the U.S.S.R. is meant to be a warning to Rumanian politicians at the moment when King Carol LI is leaving for Germany to interview Herr Adolph Hitler."—Havas.
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