Bucharest, May 9.
Amidst dark German hints that the Allies are prepared to force the Balkans into the war in order to save their own position elsewhere, and fears in London and Paris that the hints presage a German move to "protect" Rumania, this country's determined neutrality was re-emphasized by an official spokesman of the Government last 4 The spokesman told foreign correspondents that "this country is not open for experiments by anyone else. It is not a country with its door open for somebody to walk in.
"Ana no one should make the mistake of thinking Rumania is serving other people's interests. We are thinking of our own.
"Rumania will not, permit herself to be made a base of operations for anyone," he concluded, Similar sentiments, and annoyance at foreign reports suggesting Rum-anion neutrality might become the the football of power politics, appeared in the newspaper "Timpu." The article was believed to have been inspired by the Foreign Office,
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