Word: tilea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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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