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Rumania had accepted her destiny in the new Europe that Hitler plans (TIME, June 3). She will also lose Transylvania to Hungary and probably a part of the Dobruja to Bulgaria, which last week turned from Russia and began courting the Axis. Sofia newspapers yelled for revision of the Treaty of Neuilly. Bulgaria wants not only the Dobruja but an outlet to the Aegean Sea, through Greece. That could be worked, too, because last week Greek...
...politically into Italy's (where she was before Anschluss). Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky was received by Count Ciano in Venice and last week Premier Count Paul Teleki was made to feel very happy in Rome-even though Benito Mussolini told him Hungary must not dream of getting Transylvania from Rumania until war's end. An Italian economic mission showed up in every Southeastern European country except Turkey, which sent a mission to Rome...
Crux of the Budapest-Bucharest discord has been Transylvania, which Hungary lost to Rumania in 1918. Last week Hungarian newspapers, notably the semiofficial Pester Lloyd, mouthpiece of ambitious Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csáky, turned on a vitriolic press campaign charging the most horrible atrocities against a most helpless minority in Transylvania-the Szeklers...
...were these pathetic "expatriates"? The Szeklers (in Hungarian, Szekely, pronounced roughly Sáy-Kaiy)* are in no sense Hungarian expatriates. They make up less than one third of Transylvania's population (3,400,000). Most of them settled in Transylvania and the Banat on their way into Europe from Asia in the Ninth Century, before there was any such thing as a Hungary. Through most of their history they have had no more desire to be affiliated with Hungary than with Rumania...
They have hated all their rulers: Hungarians, Mongols, Turks, Habsburgs, Rumanians. During their latest affiliation to Hungary (1868-1918), their repression of the Rumanian majority in Transylvania was appalling. Nevertheless it was on behalf of this Hungarian minority that Budapest was last week crying...