BALKAN FEUDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1941, Page 7

BALKAN FEUDS

REALITIES CONTRASTED WITH NAZI CLAIMS HUNGARY & RUMANIA AT ODDS. BULGARIAN COMPLAINTS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 28. On June 6 a German home broadcast stated: “It will not be long before the whole of the Balkan region and the south-east will be turned from a centre of unrest into a blossoming garden.” In common with other Nazi dreams, this one shows little evidence of materialising. There is hatred for Hungary in Rumania, in spite of the Antonescu Government’s acceptance of the German arbitration transferring Transylvania to Hungary and the fact that the youth of both Rumania and Hungary is being sacrificed in Hitler’s “anti-Bolshe-vik crusade.” The Bucharest radio on August 20 stormed at the Budapest radio for broadcasting the information that “columns of Hungarian troops have actively participated with the Germans in the battle for Odessa. In reality, not a single Hungarian has joined in the fighting.” Hungary is embroiled with Yugoslavia over the seizure of a number of farms belonging to Hungarians and Germans. The Croat people are actively dissatisfied with the Italians who are occupying Dalmatia. The Bulgarian Government has sent a protest against the presence of Italian troops in those parts of Greece and Yugoslavia that are now occupied by Bulgaria. In fairness to the German simile, it must be remembered, however, that inquiry and evil do have fruits.