RIL 26, 1989
AN
POWERS INDEPENDENCE?
garia-they in- are badly equipped to defend from a day when the Reich feels itself stifted the wary and plunderer the wheat, oil and base for lack of living-room. Jugoslavia, simple country- metals of which he stands in need. Nor and Serbia in particular, would put up rich and clever will the events of the past 10 days have a stern and courageous resistance in the improved their position, for Skodas was mountains to invasion, but in the plains aw, it was chiefly their arsenal. When the German threat and foothills she lacks both mobility
e Prime Minis- to Czechoslovakia became imminent the and equipment.
sigificance of bulk of the domestic contract were
Bulgaria, who was only given pormis-
e Mr. Chamber- transferred to Slovakia, and the ener- sion to rearm by the abrogation of the h few exceptions gies of the old factory at Pilsen were appropriate clause in the Treaty of elieve, that Herr turned on to foreign contracts. Thore Neuilly at Salonika last year, is in a cerity when he one could see, as I saw on the day of worse case along similar lines. Immedi- urther territorial the Austrian invasion, the monogram ately, in case of war, it would be more of King Carol being stencilled on the important that she should agree not to OMINATION barrels of field artillery as individuals stab her Balkan neighbours in the back hyopic optimism might have monograms sewn on a than that she should send ill-armed
red, With what shirt.
levies across the mountains to swell
id?
the tale of cannon-fodder in Rumania
KING CAROL'S EFFORTS
It is noteworthy that the Bulgarian after his recent visit to Premier,
and Angora, asserted Balkan unity, there is little reason to doubt his word. SOLDIERS' PAY RAISED
in South-Eastern Rumania is the best-equipped of or Jugoslavia.
not place a Balkan Powers for actual sur. m. To have en vival in terms of armaments, for she onomic orbit was is manufacturing, under licence from a protectorate on France, aeroplanes and other kinds of arms. Sho also has 30,000 Bren eye-opener the guns a large number by Balkan In Greece, as in Rumania, the King, in the Balkans standards. The King has made the with the assistance of a British Naval forces in any way senti- army his special province, purged it Mission, has pulled the armed aria, the ally of of the Iron Guard supporters among together, put the army into for a Power which the younger officers who might have English uniforms so as to avoid any raised the last war, and acted as a Fifth Column, and increased impression of Ruritanianism, veries, inferior in its self-respect. In the last war it was their pay and seen that they get paid. atial capital goods held that the Rumanian officer class The navy, in a country so mountainous olling-stock. Fur- was of rather poor quality, This is and so cut off, except along the valley
e Reich
sober
of the Vardar, from her northern neigh- bours, is the most important arm.
It
beyond no longer believed by foreign observers to be gained by to be true. orce over those On the other hand, the rather flam- consists solely of destroyers and sub- y hope of rescue boyant temperament of the nation is marines, though a contract has recently have the will to said to be noticeable in their method of been signed for fast torpedo motor-
handling machinery. When a Ruman- boats.
he Balkan Powers ian army unit is provided with lorries, The navy would probably have to armoured cars, or tanks, it tends to carry the army from point to point drive them to death without looking around the coast as well as fulfilling its after the engines or carrying adequate own supplies of spare parts.
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On Rumania's western front there is no Maginot line, but there are many
From n bird's eye strong points and pill-boxes capable of delaying an enemy advance towards Balkans one can form various conclu- the Carpathian passes. In short, the sions. My own is that they are in- Rumanian army could probably give a dividually helpless to do
more than far better account of itself than some fight a delaying action even more abroad would expect, though with helpless than in the last war: that even deficiencies still unforeseen at home. as a bloc of small Powers, without the backing of Russia and the Western
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OFFER FROM BERLIN? Jugoslavia is brave and ill-armed, al- democracies, they would, within a year: though her first Hurricane takes the at the most, be reduced to guerrilla (you can't help making a good change) air this month. There is a rumour now operations in the hills. But, also, that' in Belgrade, denied and unconfirmed, any great aggressor Power which was that Germany has offered the country harassed on another front would have eight milliard dinars' worth of arma- its work cut out, even if its objectives ments, but only on political conditions were reached, to retain them and pre- its line of communications and with an implicit threat that if she serve does not agree the Croatian grievances intact. may be boiled up into an excuse for intervention. Even if this racial sore were healed, there exists, along the valleys of the Save and Danube, and in the rich wheatfields of the Voiovodina, a German minority of 450,000, a fair nucleus of "tortured brethren" on any
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