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...terraces above the Black Sea at the quiet port of Balcic the late Queen Marie of Rumania lived some of her happiest days. Born a British princess, she learned to love Rumania as if she belonged there. So Rumanians thought it strange that she liked so much to have Bulgarian calla lilies around her Balcic house and that she insisted on having them tended by Bulgarian gardeners. In her will Queen Marie devised that though her body should rest in the royal crypt near Bucharest, her heart should be enshrined at Balcic, which she hoped would always be Rumanian soil...
Ever since Adolf Hitler began redeeming minorities, Rumania has been meat for partitioning. The country was one of the most spectacular gainers after World War I. It is dotted like the Indies with islands -of foreigners. Big and solid islands are the Bulgarian minority in Dobruja and a Hungarian minority in southeast Transylvania, almost at dead centre of the country. Ten years ago the Rumanians admitted minorities of 1,425,000 Hungarians, 740,000 Germans, 725,000 Jews, 575,000 Ruthenians, 415,000 Russians, 315,000 Bulgarians, 290,000 Turks, 275,000 Gypsies...
...Manoilesco motored to Berghof for a talk with Herr Hitler, proceeded to Rome the same afternoon. With heavy rhetoric the Berlin radio summarized the results of the conference: "Germany today, less than ever, had reason to refrain from pointing out that the Reich is in favor of reasonable Bulgarian and Hungarian revision claims." The result of the Salzburg sales talks will not be made public until Bulgaria and Slovakia have had their turns...
Russian Angle. Not too subtle was Great Britain's sponsorship of the Dobruja claim. Russia would like to be the Big Brother and Sponsor No. 1 of Bulgaria, and Russia wants all (not just the old Bulgarian part) of the Dobruja for Bulgaria so that the two nations may establish a pan-Slavic frontier. Now that Britain is powerless to stop Hitler in the Balkans, anything that Russia can do to stop him is fine & dandy in London...
...group then shut themselves behind locked doors, and talked their problems over. When they came out, they handed reporters a communique all about their "spirit of reciprocal understanding and cooperation"-but not a word about who will get first pickings on transit of Rumanian oil, Hungarian wheat, Yugoslav fruits, Bulgarian tobacco...