Bucharest, May 18. The seventh conference of the Economic Council of the Balkan Entente On problems governing the international canal, railways, the posts and communications was opened here yesterday by M. Gregory Gafencu, Rumanian Foreign Minister.
Alluding to Yugoslavia's rapprochement with the Rome-Berlin axis, M. Gafencu said "We do not wish to hamper relations which member countries who wish to develop with other European Powers.
"The Balkan Entente will not assess a limit, but extend the scope of its activities in order to increase our powers for work and resistance.'—United Press.
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