NOT A SETTLEMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 85, 7 October 1940, Page 9

NOT A SETTLEMENT

VIENNA AGREEMENT

DOUBT AS TO AXIS WIN-

POLICY OF GRAB

(By (Celegmpli—Press AssoeiaUon~Cs>i>yi'igf)t (Received October 7, 2.30 p.m. 3."'

■LONDON;-October 6.

The correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" in the Balkans says relations between Hungary and" Rumania show that the "> Vienna Agreement was not a settlement at all. Big groups of Hungarians were left-in Rumania, while Hungary absorbed vast areas populated by Rumanians. Moreover, Hungary has no irifenlion of regarding the .settlement as .final. :

it seems to be dawning 'on "countries which, were hitherto persuaded that;an Axis victory was a foregone conclusion, that, after all there-is a remote possibility of a British victory. and, also, that the' Axis is not likely to have things all its own way when the time comes for making peace.

A country like Hungary, therefore, has a-natural tendency to cash in as much.as possible on the ground/that "if the" Axis wins we shall keep it. If the Axis is defeated or weakened,, then the more we "have the less we are likely to lose in proportion." '.;•'•■ MUTUAL EXPULSIONS.. . A message from Bucharest says that 280 Rumanian intellectuals who have i arrived at Curtici from Transylvania j declared that the Hungarian" authorities*, without .warning, ordered their departure. In Budapest it issenu-ofucially staled that Rumania's intransigcucy in. the negotiations for the return' of refugees compelled Hungary to take reprisals and expel certain Rumanians. "The'expelled Rumanians," says the statement, "are only a fraction of the , number of Hungarians expelled from* Rumania. If Rumania continues the expulsions Hungary will be compelled to take stronger reprisals." . The' Berlin news agency stated that Rumania had ordered the . expulsion 6t - all.foreign. Jews "who: had illegally entered the country in the past" five years.--; .;■ ; •.•;;■ ■;_/; ■ : - .--■.■■.