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Rumania was first on the carpet, its delegation led by white-haired, monocled Premier Ion Gigurtu, who made his fortune in gold mining. Accompanying him was black-haired, swarthy Foreign Minister Mihail Manoilesco, who lost a fortune in coal mining. If anything good was coming to Rumania from Germany, Gigurtu was the man to get it. As a youth he studied at the Mining Academy in Freiberg, Germany, has kept his old German friends and made many more. He has long advocated closer economic cooperation between Germany and Rumania in the belief that they are geographically best suited to cooperate...
After preliminary consultations at Castle Fuschl near Salzburg with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Messrs. Gigurtu and 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...
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