BALKAN ENTENTE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20132, 29 December 1939, Page 7

BALKAN ENTENTE

POSSIBLE WEAKNESS “INTERNAL ENEMY” BULGARIAN MENACE OPINIONS IN PARIS (Fli'o. Tel. Copyright — United Press Assn.) (Reed. Dec. 29, 9 a.m.) PARIS, Dec. 28. The foreign editor of Le Soir, M. Jules Sauerwein, commenting on the meeting of the Balkan Entente to-day, says that one of the entente’s weaknesses is that it must face an internal enemy before it prepares (o resist the outside menace. Bulgarian aerodromes and military establishments are ready to receive the invading forces either of Russia or Germany. Bolshevisation is another internal danger. It is certain 'that a Russian attack on Rumania would provoke outbreaks in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. In danger the entente would do well to co-ordinate its efforts to resist this closely-allied Bulgarian menace. The ‘ more discontented Bulgaria becomes, the more it will listen to Russian propaganda. Therefore, on Bulgaria the conference must take the position that it might be possible for Britain and France to offer concessions which would be operative only on condition of Bulgaria’s whole-hearted participation in the defence of the peninsula. Unless the Balkan Entente’s diplomatic preparations support military preparations they will receive unpleasant surprises.