Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-10-03
QUEEN MARIE TO FOCUS
u INTEREST In RUJMANIA
Country Gained Heavily in Area and
Population by Peace Treaty-War
Debt to America S44,39O,OO0.

I bearing interest, which plan swells
the debt to the final figure.
Geographically, Rumania is about
the size of the State of New MeXico:
that is to say it has 122,2s2 square
miles. If the war added a large debt
TO Rumania's load, it also more than
doubled the territory of the country,
which, at the outbreak OF hostil1tles,
lad an area of only SO 4S9 square
miles. Under the peace treaty Ru-
mania acquired BesSarabia, 17,146
square miles: Pennsylvania, 22.132
square miles: Banat. IL, 009 square
miles, and other provinces to make up
the SO 060-odd square miles taken
from other nations and given to Ru-
mania.
Russia Not RecOnciled.
Russia has not grown reconciled to
losing BeSSarabia, and other boun-
DIARIES drawn in favor of Rumanla
have caused standing problems in the
Balkans. Because Rumania, Czecho-
slovakia and JugoslaVia were carved
out of Austria Hungary, Germany or
Russia, they have a common inter
est in preserving Their gains. hence
the formation of the Little Entente.
name which figures frequently in
foreign news dispatches.
Rumania in September achieved the
distinction of being elected to the
Council of the League of Nations, and
since CzechoSlovakia also was elected
to the council, the Little Entente Is
we'll fortified in the League. More
over. Poland. while not a member of
the Little Entente, has an equally
vital interest in preserving the peace
treaty boundaries. since Poland was
iyo11 of nv T16
Russia, ami Poland also is on the
League council. Thus. any move Ger
many, Austria and Hungary may
make in the League TO revise the
boundaries will find strong opposition
from the nations most directly con-
Cerned, to say nothing of the other
allied nations signatory to the treaty.
Rumania also is a member of the
World Court. Since the war she has
maintained standing army much
larger than that of the United States.
In the item of population Rumania
gained enormously under the peace
treaty. jumping from 7,904,104 before
the war to 17.393.149 in 1919, when
the new boundaries were drawn. OF
the new total about 13 900 900 are of
the Rumanian race. There is a pro-
nounced minority" problem in Ru-
mania, because of the absorption of
peoples who long had peen under other
governments, though all were claimed
at the Paris peace conference to be
merely reservations to Rumania of
those formerly her own.
Capital Has $4,000.
According to 1918 census figures the
population of Rumana was divided.
religiously, as follows: Greek Ortho-
dox faith, 1886. 900: Roman Catholics.
1,483 900; Greek Catholics, 1,456, 900
and ProteStantS, $4,000 There are
$4,000 Jews in the country and scat
tering representations of other reli-
gious groups.
Queen Marie's capital city. Buchar-
est, has a population of about 100000.
The Queen is daughter of the Duke
of SaXeCoburg and Gotha and a
granddaughter Of Queen Victoria Of
England.
Trade between the two nations
doubtless will increase as a result of
the visit, because Rumanians will fol-
low closely everything connected with
the United States tour. just as Amer
leans will be interested IN the distinc-
tive Rumanian characteristics of the
Queen and her entour@MA. with the
likelihood that RumantEn goods will
be more in demand here End Ameri
can goods more in demand in Ru-
mania.
The visit is more than pleasure
Jaunt. 1t is, il fact, a good will"
trip, which will give the American
people. through the publicity already
swelling to large proportions, more
comprehensive grasp of Humanian af-
fairs and aspirations. whether or not
Americans take any concrete interest
in the peculiarly European issues fac
ing that country.
Such enhancement of the good rela-
tions existing between Rumania and
the United States will stamp the tour
as one of the mastery moves for
which the Queen has considerable