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...agenda included discussion of: 1) The European situation-presumably reference to the growing ascendancy of Italy† as the protector of the Little Entente and the coincident ambiguous position of France in that role. Notorious are Mussolini's secret conferences with Jugoslav Premier Nintchitch, his furtherance of a Roumanian loan at Rome, his diplomatic feelers into the Eastern Balkans, notably signalized last week by the bestowal upon Greek Dictator-President Pangalos of the Italian Great Cross. 2) Proposals to abolish inter-Little Entente customs control. 3) The perennial "Hungarian question" (i.e., Hungarians are perpetually talking about monarchy and hatching...
...Roumanian government placed orders for five Italian submarines last week, negotiated the purchase of two old but reconditioned Italian destroyers, proposed to cover this deal financially out of the promised 200,000,000 lire Italian loan to Roumania (TIME, May 22, ITALY) which was projected as soon as the Italio-U. S. debt agreement was signed...
...picturesque idleness on the western shore of the Black Sea, not far from the Danube's mouth, lies Constanta, Roumania's only port. In the casino there can often be seen half a dozen gilded Roumanian admirals who command scarce so many ships...
Despatches from Bucharest announced that the long heralded Roumanian general elections resulted last week in a three to one government majority. Cables from non-Roumanian cities reported, as usual, that the Roumanian government had exercised the most inhuman violence against Opposition candidates, that at least one such candidate?a priest named Turco?had been killed by government supporters with the assistance of gendarmes. What occurred may be judged from an account cabled from Vienna by able New York Times correspondent Clarence Streit...
...Expelled from Roumania last week because the authorities at Bucharest deemed his despatches "insulting to the Crown and Government." Numerous U. S. newspapers rallied to the Times, joined the New York World in editorially flaying the Roumanian Administration as "a government which uses the King as a dupe (TIME, Feb. 15), flimflams a Crown Prince out of his throne (TIME, Jan. 11), strong-arms elections and rules for the exclusive benefit of a reactionary minority...