POLICY IN RUMANIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1939, Page 5

POLICY IN RUMANIA

DECLARATION BY FOREIGN

MINISTER RESISTANCE TO ATTACKS FROM ABROAD. IRON GUARD PROSTRATE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 1. The "Daily Telegraph’s” Bucharest correspondent says the Defence Minister (M. Ciupercu) in a New Year message to the armed forces, sets out Rumania’s new national policy. This embodies securing peace by preparing for war, consolidating the national renaissance front; replacing all former political parties and refusing frontier revision. Rumania . will resist armed attacks and subterranean . influences from abroad. The Iron Guard seems to be entirely prosprate. Nobody has succeeded Codrianu as .leader. A mass of petitions begging the royal clemency continues to pour in from the gaols where conspirators are confined. King Carol’s courage and initiative have eliminated crippling political uncertainties and secured tranquility, but he is still elaborately guarded. Humanity marks the anti-Jawish measures and no racial Aryan standards have been created. There is a desire to improve relations with Hungary in order to remove trading and travel barriers. Rumania must be friendly with Germany, but will preserve her liberty of action. Hungary, although more closely connected with .he Berlin-Rome axis, also desires to preserve her national traditions, for which reason she and Rumania must manoeuvre adroitly in the face of the same potential peril.