Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Privately, other explanations for German troop movements in the eastern Alps were given. For a week the Brenner Pass from old Austria into Italy has been closed to civilian traffic. For the same period long German troop and munition trains have been pouring through, southward bound to Italy. Best guess as to their ultimate destination: Italian-owned Libya, in north Africa, where Dictator Benito Mussolini has long planned an "adventure...
Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop handed Lithuania's Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys an ultimatum (in Berlin, as always), accompanied with the usual threats of invasion. Before long Foreign Minister Urbsys delivered Lithuania's acquiescence, agreed to sign a non-agression treaty which makes Lithuania a buffer State between the Reich and Poland and the Baltic nations...
...about 90% of Rumanian oil (annual production: about 53,300,000 barrels), farm products, wheat, timber, bauxite, chromium, copper and sulfate will henceforth be "sold" to Germany, thus going a long way toward ending the Reich's scarcity of food and raw materials...
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...
...Rumania numbers some 220,000 men, that of Hungary about 70,000. Rumania is also far ahead of Hungary in trained reserves. But whereas the Magyars have earned a reputation as fierce fighters, the Rumanians are known more for their resplendent uniforms than for their fighting.* In the long run Rumania's greater resources should tell, but the joker is that Hungary would be backed by the Third Reich. The possibility loomed last week for a few short hours that Soviet Russia might come to Rumania's aid, but the last thing King Carol wants is Soviet soldiers...