EXCHANGE OF VIEWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 March 1940, Page 5

EXCHANGE OF VIEWS

COUNT TELEKI’S MISSION TO ROME PROBLEMS OF SECURITY IN BALKANS. “SAILING ON TROUBLED WATERS'

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. ROME, March 27. The visiting Hungarian Prime Minister, Count Teleki,’ had a long and cordial talk with Signor Mussolini. . Interviewed by “La Tribuna before the conversation with the Duce, he declared that all expecting sensational results from his talks in Rome would be mistaken. He came to exchange views. “That is what one does with one’s friends, especially when sailing in rather troubled waters,” he remarked. A communique states: “The conversation between Signor Mussolini and Count Teleki resulted in a proposal for further collaboration on the basis agreed on in 1927, which has been tested during recent happenings. This friendship coincides perfectly with the existing relations between Italy and Germany and Germany and Hungary as well as Italy and Yugoslavia.” The communique adds that both the Italian and Hungarian Governments firmly decided to co-ordinate then actions to preserve peace in the Balkan and Danubian areas.

INTEREST MAINTAINED POSSIBILITY OF AGGRESSION IN BALKANS. NEED OF ALLIED VIGILANCE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) RUGBY, March 27. Yesterday’s meeting between Count Teleki and Signor Mussolini in Rome, the continued presence of Dr Karl Clodius (head of the Economic Section of the German Foreign Minister) in. Bucharest, where he is thought to be pressing Germany's economic claims on the Rumanian authorities and the forthcoming visit of a representative ot the Rumanian Finance Ministry to London, serve to keep the interest of the newspapers centred on Souli Eastern Europe. ‘•The Times” says: 'Herr Hitlei and M. Stalin may yet agree to co-operate more actively in South-Eastern Europe and that possibility must be taken into account by the Allied Governments. After recent events they will have no excuse for neglecting to tak the initiative, whether in the economic or political field, whenever an occasion presents itself. The more exposed Balkan States no doubt have eveiy interest, in maintaining a comm ™ front against aggression from tne north, whether it takes the form ot relentless economic pressure ° r 01 plans for setting up spheres of influence at their expense. But they will be more ready to defend their interest if they are convinced that they can count on Allied support in circumstances which may have receded temporarily, but can never be dismissed as improbable while Berlin and Moscow find it worth their while to hunt in couples.