LATE AWAKENING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1940, Page 6

LATE AWAKENING

RUMANIANS & AXIS INCREASING RESISTANCE TO PROPOSALS. ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE SEEMS TO HAVE HAPPENED. ißy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) LONDON. August ■!-. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Balkans correspondent says the Rumanians increasingly are not appreciating the German proposal that Rumanian stattesmen should commit national suicide. The almost impossible seems to have happened, with the violently Germanophile iron Guard issuing a “no surrender” manifesto on Saturday, which urges Rumanians to awaken to the perils of moment and to distinguish between the greedy Powers seeking to impose concessions and the Powers which helped Rumania in the last war. The Germans probably nc longer consider the Iron Guard necessary as a political weapon and have withdrawn their support. Another surprise was the leaflet issued by the ex-Peasant Party leader. M. Maniu. declaring that Hungary had not modified her demands and that her promises of Autonomy for Western Transylvania cannot be trusted. He adds that force must be met by force. Even more interesting than these anti-Revisionist leaflets is the flickering of a semblance of party political activity under the stress of Germany’s demands for further Rumanian sacrifices. “The Times” Balkan’s correspondent says he became convinced of the truth of the assertion that all Rumanians in Transylvania stand behind M. Maniu during a tour of the disputed areas, where he found repeated evidence of Rumanian ability to resist Hungarian assaults if the latter arc not backed by the Axis.