RUMANIA NEXT?

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1938, Page 7

RUMANIA NEXT?

ANOTHER MINORITIES CRISIS POSSIBLE SOME FEARS OF AGITATION RECONSTRUCTION OF MINISTRY IN PROSPECT LONDON, October 5. The germ of yet another dispute over the vexed question of Central European minorities is indicated by messages from Rumania concerning the result of the Munich settlement. Though there has been no comment so far in the strictly-controlled Press, Reuter’s Bucharest correspondent says that authoritative circles believe that the success of the Sudetens may lead to agitation among Rumanian minorities comprising Hungarians and Germans domiciled in Transylvania and the Carpathians and Bulgarians in the Dobruja and south-east Rumania on the Bulgarian border. Officials maintain, however, that it will be possible to satisfy the minorities without outside intervention.

It is expected that King Carol will await the clarification of the European situation before altering the Ministry. Diplomatic circles are of the opinion that when this occurs the new Prime Minister will be of Rumanian-Trans-lyvanian origin, from the district developed by the Hungarians and Germans. M Alexander Vaida, the Nationalist Monarchist leader, is the most likely candidate. On the other hand, it is pointed out that the present Prime Miister, the Patriarch Miron Christea, is also a Transylvanian.