The Archive · 1940

Deal with Germany

Make — Balkan Entente Conference Said Disturbed by! New Turn; Bucharest Asks for Guarantees

UMANIA took the spotlight t Belgrade, Feb. 3. today at the current Balkan En-toute conference following a flurry of excitement over widely circulated reports that the Rumanian Foreign Minister, M. Grigore Gafencu, had threatened to swing his country completely into the Soviet-German orbit unless there is an immediate relaxation of Hungarian and Bulgarian pressure to influence the Balkan countries, Competent quarters tended to confirm that Rumania has already made substantial economic concessions to Germany in exchange for obtaining the relaxation of Russian pressure in Bessarabia.

Considerable official secrecy was being observed here yesterday regarding the developments i in the first session of the Entente conference.

However, there were persistent hints that the attitude of Rumania w: creating concern among delegates to the conference,

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