Evening star., 1939-03-05
New Czech Division
Reported Plotted
By Rumania, Poland
Carols Foreign Minister
In Warsaw for TuIk
With Col. Beck
Ay the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WARSAW. March 4.-The possi-
bility of arranging a new territorial
amputation of Czecho-Slovakia to
give Poland and Hungary common
border was reported tonight to be
one of the chief subjects for i'm
portant week end talks between the
Rumanian and Polish foreign min
listers.
Grigore Gafencu, foreign minister
of Rumania, arrived here this
morning to discuss international
problems with his counterpart in
the Polish government, Col. Joseph
Beck.
Both Polish and Rumanian quar-
tiers said Gafencu and Col. Beck
would discuss the possibility of
Hungarian annexation of Carpatho-
Ukraine. easternmost province of
Czecho-Slovakia, thus bringing the
Polish and Hungarian borders to-
gether on Rumania's north.
New Czech Problem Looms.
Sharp internal friction in Federal
Czecho-Slovakia and changed atti-
tudes of both Germany and Ru-
mania regarding Carpatho- Ukraine
were advanced as reasons why Gen.
trail Europe was moving toward
another Czecho-Slovak problem.
In Prague, the Czecho-Slo-
yak cabinet Thursday began
discussions scheduled to con-
tinue through next Monday of
alleged arbitrary actions" in
economic and internal affairs of
the Slovak autonomous govern
mentD
Carpatho- Ukraine was granted
autonomy by the Czecho- -Slovaks
following last September's crisis,
which ended in Germany's annexa-
ton of the Sudetenland
Hungary, supported by Poland,
then claimed the whole of Carpa-
o-Ukraine but Germany and
Italy as mediators divided the re-
gion. They gave Hungary important
cities and left but small section of
mountains and forests to the Czecho-
Slovak federal union.
In last years dismemberment,
Czecho-S -Slovakia ceded 10,8l0 square
miles of her territory of nearly 50,-
900 square miles to Germany, 1888
square miles to Hungary and 375
square miles to Poland
Ukranian Question Postponed.
Germany opposed publicly the
Polish Hungarian wishes for a COM
mon frontier through Hungary's ab-
sorption Of all Carpatho- Ukraine.
Nazi foreign policy then had Hit
ler's pet dream of domination over
the Soviet Russian Ukraine as the
next objective
But the Nazis postponed the
Ukrainian question and both Poles
and Rumanians believe Germany is
ready, when circumstances are ripe,
to permit Hungary to take charge
Of Czecho- -Slovakia's eastern tip.
Taking note of the Nazi resistance
last fall Rumania followed the same
line in declining to back the Hun
garian demands. Col. Beck went to
Rumania in october to persuade
King Carol otherwise-but failed.
Rumania was represented tonight,
however, as having changed her
stand along with Germany. and
Gafencu was expected to tell the
Polish foreign minister his country
no. longer objected to Hungary's
wishes.
Polish sources said Czecho- -Slovak-
Carpatho- Ukraine quarrels were de-
veloping, with Slovakia calling for
independence instead of mere auton-
omy and Carpatho- Ukraine refusing
guidance from Prague.
Should Slovakia obtain independ-
ence, it was pointed out. Carpatho-
Ukraine would be cut of from
Prague and her delicate economic
existence made more perilous.