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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...periodically since it was set up by the Treaty of Paris in 1856, to discuss navigation maintenance on the lower part of the internationalized river. But what made last week's meeting remarkable was its atmosphere of mysterious amity. Opening the sessions, its German chairman, Dr. Georg Martius, warmly clasped hands with not only Italian and Rumanian representatives, but also British and French. The cheerful 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Hands Across the Danube | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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