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...about 90% of Rumanian oil (annual production: about 53,300,000 barrels), farm products, wheat, timber, bauxite, chromium, copper and sulfate will henceforth be "sold" to Germany, thus going a long way toward ending the Reich's scarcity of food and raw materials...
...Rumanian agriculture will be "adjusted" to Germany's requirements...
...German engineers will build roads, improve river transportation and overhaul the Rumanian railway system...
...Rumanian oil fields and mines will be exploited by German capital...
...circumstances" which bludgeoned Rumania into signing the treaty consisted largely of troop movements by old as well as new enemies. Führer Hitler had massed German soldiers in the eastern tip of his new protectorate of Slovakia, only 75 miles from the Rumanian frontier. If Rumania was physically to fall to Germany (after Hungary had also fallen), other jackal nations might have a chance to dash in and grab a few mouthfuls as they did twice in Czecho-Slovakia. The Hungarian Army lined up 300,000 men on the Rumanian border. Even little Bulgaria, to the south, mobilized...