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Meanwhile Rumanian police made a belated attempt to do something about 40,000 German "tourists" who came for Easter and stayed. Germans who had lived for generations in the Rumanian Banat passed the watchword, "Hitler will soon be here." In view of the general peril, Rumania and Russia were reported to have agreed to reduce tension on the Bessarabian frontier by removing troops six and a quarter miles from each side of the line. In the oil fields preparations were made to pump the oil wells full of concrete if Rumania is invaded by anybody...
...were these pathetic "expatriates"? The Szeklers (in Hungarian, Szekely, pronounced roughly Sáy-Kaiy)* are in no sense Hungarian expatriates. They make up less than one third of Transylvania's population (3,400,000). Most of them settled in Transylvania and the Banat on their way into Europe from Asia in the Ninth Century, before there was any such thing as a Hungary. Through most of their history they have had no more desire to be affiliated with Hungary than with Rumania...
Richest and largest of the Balkans, Rumania is surrounded by nations which have long and impatiently waited for a chance to grab back some of the territories they had previously lost to the Rumanians. Revisionist-mad Hungarians long for the return of the Banat, Bukovina and Transylvania, old Hungarian provinces lost after the World War to Rumania, peopled now by some 1,500,000 Magyars and 800,000 Germans. Bulgaria has never forgotten that she lost part of the province of Dobruja to Rumania in 1913 and that some 500,000 Dobrujans are now Rumanian subjects. Bessarabia, to the northeast...
...Banat: Capital...
...Coastal Banat Spalato...