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Mosley often trivializes history by reducing it, for example, to a matter of Chamberlain's gout or Hitler's bad breath. He also overplays that luxury sport of historians, the what-if game: "If a certain Virgil Tilea hadn't had a large and stimulating lunch on March 16, 1939, Britain and France might not have been at war with Germany on September...
...Tilea, Rumanian minister in London, was encouraged, probably by a Tory foreign affairs expert, to believe that his country was next on Hitler's list. This fear, passed on to Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, stirred the somnolent British Cabinet to diplomatic action, which took the form of a mutual-defense pact with Poland...
...London, Rumania's Minister, Dr. Viorel Virgil Tilea, called on Lord Halifax at the Foreign Office to try to answer two searching British questions: 1) Was Rumania planning to increase the oil quota for Germany which Britain thought reasonable when, with France, she guaranteed Rumania's borders? 2) If so, was Rumania planning to force oil companies financed by Allied money to provide this added supply...
Evidently Minister Tilea's replies were reassuring, for presently it was reported that Lord Halifax's Government had lifted its ban, suddenly applied earlier in the week, upon shipments of war materials to Rumania. Such a ban, plus cash money, plus their promise to protect Rumania, are the Allies' most potent weapons against their Rumanian oil antagonist, Dr. Karl Claudius, economic field marshal for Adolf Hitler. Last week Dr. Claudius was coaxing Italy to give up part of her contracted share (hitherto 15%) in Rumania's oil output so that Germany might have...
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