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...Allies (whose nationals, together with Belgian, Netherlands and U. S. capital, own 80% of Rumania's oil production) pacified while this is going on. Sir Reginald Hoare, British Minister at Bucharest, applied Allied pressure, warning Professor Netta et al. with grim politeness that Germany's quota of Rumanian oil must on no account be increased, least of all out of wells developed by Allied money. Professor Netta et al. replied that Germany's quota would not be increased, but the decline in Rumania's oil production must be stopped and reversed...
...military reasons Rumania anticipates attack from across the Dnestr near Cernauti (see map) rather than from Odessa into Bessarabia. (In Bessarabia there are too many swamplands to cross.) There are now 18 Rumanian divisions massed around Cernauti as against four in Bessarabia, which Rumania might even yield under stress, taking her stand along the River Prut. But meantime Rumania is frantically strengthening her positions from the Black Sea, along the entire length of the Russian border, and back along the entire length of the Hungarian border-honor among Balkan nations cannot be trusted...
...Balkans. All last week the Rumanian Ministry of Propaganda in Bucharest issued official denials to nosy correspond ents. It swore that King Carol II was not out of town. Actually, His Majesty speeded down the Chaussée Kisseleff from the Palace to the Royal Railway Station one morning along a route on which one newsman estimated there were 176 picked secret policemen, one every eight yards. The police were told that the King was going hunting with His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mihai on the royal estate near Timisoara...
Instead, Carol and Mihai showed up near Vrsac, a Yugoslav town close to the Rumanian border, which is noted for its good wines and hunting. There, they were met by the polished, cultured, Oxford-educated, pro-Ally Prince Paul, Senior Regent of Yugoslavia, and the Yugoslav Premier, Dragisha Cvetkovitch. Of all Rumania's Balkan neighbors, Yugoslavia is its only real friend (Rumania annexed territory from the others after World War I). Rumania and Yugoslavia, once members of the French-inspired Little Entente, are now members of the Balkan Entente, which is scheduled to meet at Belgrade next month. Dictator...
...Rumania defend herself from Russia, Carol had good cause to consult Prince Paul for help. Though little news of it leaked, his Government was just as frantically reinforcing its frontiers as the Belgians and the Dutch. Thousands of reservists called to the colors completely overtaxed the capacity of the Rumanian railroad system. Not only was there no standing room in railway cars, men clung on the outside steps in below-zero weather. Some of them grew numb and were found in the morning dead along the right...