Bucharest, Apr. 20. The Rumantan ' Parliament today leased to a German com= pany 83,980 acres of choice forest land on which the company will build two railroads and export timber. Rumanian labour avill be used exclusively, it was reported, Last autumn Rumanian military leaders opposed leasing the land to the German company as the terri tory was considered a strategic position, it was recalled—United Press. has sufficiently diminished his stocks and his power to replenish them and that he dare not face a total war"
Lord Lothian said Germany' objective "is to capture se power, which Is the key to world power, 'The act was let out of the bag," he declared" during Welles' visit to Berlin, when a statement was issued by Gobbels (German Propaganda Minister) that Germany's pence terms involved the ending of Allied. interference in Europe and that the British stranglehold' on the seas should be ended and Gibraltar be returned to Spain, "Do you suppose for a moment it Nazi Germany and Communist Russia obtained command of the seas the world would be anything like as free as it has been during the period of British control? If control of the exit to the Mediterranean fell to the Nazis it would be the end of the British Commonwealth, since it would out British communtea: tions, It would also. profoundly effect the security of the Americas contained in the' Monroe Doctrine. The Doctrine's frst line of defence, hag always been, in fact, that she. principal naval power in Europe, Support it,"—United Press.
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