Word: transylvanians
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...were told that Rumania would not consider ceding more than one-fifth of Transylvania. The delegates went home to Budapest and Count Csaky had a talk with the German and Italian Ministers, then went off to Vienna, taking Count Teleki with him. Hungarian warplanes made practice flights over the Transylvanian border...
Rumania. And it looked as if Russia might not wait for the Transylvanian problem to settle itself. So Herr von Ribbentrop and Count Ciano, who consider southeast Europe their own back lot, decided on a squeeze play...
...Rumanian Government was reported willing to cede a "narrow strip" of Transylvania northwest of the Transylvanian Alps to Hungary; Germany had reason to believe that it had achieved a clean sweep in Rumanian internal affairs, at least as of last week...
...Dardanelles. Lacking support from British and French troops, the Serbians and Rumanians found themselves penned up between the Germans and the Austro-Hungarians on one side and Bulgarians and Turks on the other. The Germans under Falkenhayn and Mackensen had little difficulty in storming the passes in the Transylvanian Alps and the Iron Gate to overrun Rumania. They might try it again...
...Allied side, expeditions could be sent against a German-Hungarian alliance through the Vardar River valley from Salonika, along the so-called Diagonal Furrow that reaches from Istanbul through Bulgaria to Belgrade, up the valley of the lower Danube from Rumania, and over the passes of the Transylvanian Alps, which are a southerly extension of the Carpathians. All this could be done provided the Allies eliminate Italy...