The Archive · 1940

Paris Learns of Pledges Made to Rumania

Special Position Covered By Separate Guarantees

Paris, Feb. 4.

The final communique to be released following the conference of the Balkan Entente will not mention Italy as the meeting remained strictly within the framework fixed by the statutes of the Entente as signed in 1934, well-informed quarters here said.

Rumania's position is a rather special one for her integrity has been guaranteed by Britain, France, and Turkey in the event of German aggression. Furthermore, Rumania has obtained through Italy's intervention that Hungary should not join forces with Soviet Russia if the latter were to attack Rumania. Bucharest obtained an identical promise from Bulgaria through the intervention of Turkey.—Havas.

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