The Archive · 1940

Rumania's Loss

Best estimates of Rumania's k Transylvania, including fortifications, highways and other public investmenis there, exceed US$1,000,000. Semi-official quarters state that if the Vienna Award is carried out at present, upwards of 1,400,000 Rumanians will be faced -with accepting Hungarian citizenship. Thes: me quarters argued that the decision to cede Transylvania to Hungary was wrong because only 950,000 Hungarians rein the area, based on the Ruman census of 1930.

Rumania today has an estimated 2,000,000 under arms and reserves totalling about 1,000,000, all of whom have seen service since the European war broke out just one year ago today when German forces marched into Poland.

Rumania's peace time army numbered 400,000, but, in view of the territory lost it was expected that this number would be reduced to 200,000 or 300,000,

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