RUMANIA AND AXIS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21206, 31 August 1940, Page 8

RUMANIA AND AXIS

TERMS OF SETTLEMENT CEDING OF TRANSYLVANIA RIGHTS OF MINORITIES (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received August 31, 3.15 p.m.) LONDON, August 30 At Belvedere Palace, Vienna, von Ribbentrop, Count Ciano, Count Csaky and M. Manoilescu signed the agreement giving Hungary 100 square miles of Transylvania. Hungary gets over two-thirds of Transylvania, including three districts inhabited by Magyar Szeklers, numbering 450,000, which approximates Hungary’s original demands. The ceded territory contains 2,000,000 people, including 800,000 Rumanians. Rumania has already begun the evacuation, which will be completed in a fortnight, when the territory must be handed over. The inhabitants of the ceded territory will receive Hungarian citizenship, but may elect to remain Rumanian within six months, whereupon they must go to Rumania. Hungary and Rumania reached an agreement for the fair treatment of their minorities, who will be allowed freedom to carry on Nazi organisations and will be represented proportionately in all self-governing institutions. Germans get the right to be educated in German and have German civil servants. The minority will use the German language officially where the German minority amounts to one-third of the population. Germans in the ceded territory get facilities to return to Germany. Germany and Italy guarantee “the integrity and territorial inviolability of the Rumanian State.” Rumania accepts the guarantee, which it is understood includes the Russian-Rumanian frontier and the Bulgarian - Rumanian - Dobrudja frontier when it is settled.