The Archive · 1938

Partition Scheme

Bucharest, Oct. 20.

Ring Carol and Col. Josef Beck, the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ead a three-hour conversation yesterday aboard the Royal yacht, the former British yacht Nahlin in which the Duke of Windsor cruised two years ago.

Col Beck, it was understood from a usually reliable source, submitted a scheme to the King for the eventual division of Ruthenia, mainly between Hungary and Poland, thus giving those two countries a. common frontier.

Regarding the Transylvanian districts, in which a Hungarian minority lives, it is believed that Hungary will rerounee her claims to these areas.

Guarantors to such a pact would be Polarid, Hungary and Italy—Reuter.

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