Plans are maturing fora Balkan pact with Italian participation design resist Russian as well as German expansion, diplomatic quar~ ters reported here last night, Rumania, it was said, appears to be IRaly's principal friend in pushing this scheme, The summoning of -Rum= a's ambassadors {rom Ankara and Belgrade for consultation in Buchar~ est is believed fo have been due to the fact that Turkey' and Yugoslavia, while favourable towards an enlarged Balkan block, are anxious as to its It was believed Here that a Balkans conference would be held at Belgrade. Tealy, it was reported, as already stated hor desire to be represented at the conference.
Although Ttalo-Turkish. Nalo-Yugoslavian relations have been improv! rapidly, Ankara and Belgrade, og well as Athens, have not Been able to Svereome ina few weeks the suspicious and rivalries that have long Separated them from Italy.
Proponents of the unification of the Balkans have increasingly urged the adoption of the plan in face of the avowing fear of German-Russian Sxurandizement there, "The London press expressed the boiler that the proposed Belgrade Conference would supersede the 1934 Balkan Entente by. establishing a military alliance of the Balkan countries. "The new projected alliance would unite alt Balkan nations against any: non-Balkan Power attacking one for more Balkan countries. Today. this: would mean united Balkan resistance against Germany and Russia.
'The conference, should it materi" alize, would be aimed at extending the Balkan Entente to include Hungary and Bulgaria, Today the Balkan Entente's membership ts Limited to Yugoslavia, Rumania, Turkey and Greece. 'Such" an' enlargement, however, might necessitate Rumania's cession of part of Dobrudja to Bul-gona and" other concessions to Tumania Looks to Ttaly:
Bucha rest, Nov, 1
The Rumania press yesterday again advocated a notitral bloc of "Balkan, nations under the leadership Siqnor Benito Mussolini semi-oficial newspaper, "Rom= commenting "on the. Lath an. hhiversary' of the advent. to power of the Fascist regime, said, "Our county eas watched. sympathetically. the complishments of disciplined action in Haly—I is ready. to support all constructive ce-operation inthe ealthy work for peace and cone solidation among neutral countries in tis region of Europe.
The same paper, apparently aiming pleasing" Yuigeslavia's concern and the attitude of Moly. and the Batkan countries.
Balkan ed, would com= Te said that the:
prise over 100,000, People who are sober, indus tel lieiplined, and. resolved to live their sphere of interests and det necessary, even by fore of versus" likewise warmly for peace. ies of war presents an example of constructive work, of order and discipline, including numerous possibilities of new chances for relaxation of tension and promotion of the under standing of peace in the Balkan wuntries and Mediterranean waters United "Press
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