NEW RUMANIA

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 8

NEW RUMANIA

NATIONAL POLICY

PEACE BY PREPAREDNESS

NO REVISION OF FRONTIERS

(By Telesrapn—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received January 3, 10 a.m.) LONDON, January 1. The Bucharest cbrresjpondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that the Rumanian Minister of Defence, M. Ciupercu, in a New Year message to the armed forces, set out the new Rumania's national policy, which embodies the securing the peace by preparing for war, the consolidation of the national renaissance front, the replacing of all former .political parties, and the refusal of frontier revision. ■■-.■' Rumania will resist armed attacks and subterranean influences from abroad. The Iron Guard seems to be entirely prostrate, and nobody has succeeded M. Codreanu as leader. Mass petitions begging for Royal clemency are pouring in from the gaols where conspirators are confined. King Carol's courage and initiative have eliminated crippling political uncertainties and secured tranquillity, but he is still elaborately guarded. Humanity marks anti-Jewish measures, and no racial Aryan standards have been created. There is a desire to improve relations with Hungary in order to remove barriers to trading and travel. Rumania must be friendly with Germany, 'but will preserve liberty of action. Hungary, although more closely connected by axis, also desires to preserve her nationalism and traditions, and therefore she and Rumania must manoeuvre adroitly in the face of the same potential peril.