STIR IN BALKANS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20049, 22 September 1939, Page 11

STIR IN BALKANS

ACTIVITY OF SOVIET RELIEF TO SOME STATES BREAKING NAZI GRIP ECONOMIC STRANGLE-lIOLD (KUh\ Tel. Copyi-ipht—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 21. 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 20. A message from Ankara states that the Turkish Foreign Minister is going to Moscow. It is stated that Turkey hopes to effect a reconciliation between England, France and Russia. The Budapest correspondent of the Associated Press of America says that five little nations of south-eatern Europe, although most of them are bitteny opposed to the Russian regime, hailed the news of Moscow's renewal of active participation in Balkan affairs as a chance to break Germany's economic strangle-hold in the south-east of Europe—except Hungary and Rumania. Turkish reports indicated that not onlv would the Foreign Minister, M. Earacoglu, have friendship talks during his impending visit to Moscow, but he’ also would try to secure better Rumanian-Russian relations in order to offset the Nazi influence in Bucharest.

Press reports in Belgrade state that the viewpoint of the balance of power the Russian development is not without advantages. It will have a “counter-balancing effect.” Yugoslavia isi seeking ia non-aggression pact with Russia. Bulgaria is apparently taking seriously the intimations that Russia will restore to Bulgaria the Dobrudja taken by Rumania in the last war. Only Hungary and Rumania look askance at the newlycreated borders with Russia.