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...After weeks of dickering, Rumania signed a new trade agreement with Germany which: 1) enhanced the value of the aski mark by nearly one-fourth as compared to the Rumanian lei, thereby giving Germany more for her money; 2) increased the yearly sale of Rumanian oil to Germany from 1,200,000 tons to 1,820,000-about 50% above pre-war levels but not enough to provide more than one-third of Germany's peacetime needs, let alone war needs. Rumor had it that to obtain these advantageous terms Hitler guaranteed Rumanian boundaries. Whether the guarantee will...
When Poland collapsed in late September, fleeing Polish forces took over the Rumanian border some 48 airplanes, 800 military trucks. This sizable lot of equipment was promptly confiscated by the Rumanian Government. By last week four nations were quarreling over the spoils, as duns were submitted to the perplexed Rumanians...
...Finland, and turn over the lost province of Bessarabia. In Moscow, New York Times Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye said he had learned "from a highly qualified observer" that Rumania did not even intend to defend the province-had no fortifications and not a single soldier there, was evacuating Rumanian businesses from the area, was mobilizing behind the River Prut, which divides Bessarabia from Rumania proper...
...Rumania, generally picked as the next victim for Stalin's expansionist program, Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu soft-soaped the Soviet Union: "We are convinced of the similarity existing between the Soviet's affirmed policy of peace and the Rumanian policy of independence." Earlier, George Tatarescu, the new pro-Ally Premier, made a bid for democratic sympathy when he promised to lift the hitherto strict Rumanian press censorship by allowing newspapers to give vent to "impartial criticism and the voicing of grievances against the Government...
...House Contain Us (Liveright, $2), a Rumanian prize novel adapted by one Oscar Leonard, is a slick if not sleazy combination of boudoir romance and political satire, might have been influenced by Molnar, Schnitzler, any one of a thousand under-the-pillow French novels...