The Archive · 1938

Parleys Followed Closely

Col Beck's negotiations with Germany, Rumania and Czechoslovakia are being followed here with the closest interest. Hope, has been expressed by some official observers that Rumania would support the Hungarian-Polish scheme for economic reasons, On the other hand, foreign reports that Col. Beck has offered Rumania a Hungarian guarantee of Rumani: frontiers in return for Buchares support of the common frontier are emphatically denied in well-informed quarters. It is declared that such a guarantee is out of the question as far as Budapest is concerned. Hungary definitely wants a common border with Poland in order to form a buffer between Russia and Ger-riy, but not at the expense of commitments to Bucharest, it was pointed out-—United Press.

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