Evening star., 1939-04-19
Hungarian Premier
Declares Faith 10
Policy Of Axis
Duce to Continue Drive
In YugosIov and
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By the Associated Press
ROME, April 19.-Italy, maneuver-
ing with Germany for position in
the current European crisis, ap-
peared today to have bound Hun
gary firmly to the Rome Berlin axis
The Hungarian premier, Count
Paul Teleky. in an after dinner
toast to Premier Mussolini last night
at Palazzo Venezia, declared his
country was faithful to the policy
OF the axis which Hungary has
spontaneously adopted"
II Duce, in a similar speech,
reaf1lrmed a friendship which
"unites the strength of each country
in the defense of order and peace
The axis diplomatic campaign
which began last week end with
German Field Marshal Hermann
Wilhelm Goering's visit to Rome will
continue, after the scheduled Thurs
day departure of the Hungarian
premier and his foreign minister,
with Italian-Yugoslav and Italian
Rumanian talks.
CianO to See Yugoslav.
Yugoslav Foreign Minister Alex
ander Cinca- -Markovich will come
to Venice on Saturday to see Italian
Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo
Ciano and arrangements were being
made to receive Rumanian Foreign
Minister Grigore Gafencu, now on a
tour of European capitals.
political circles at Belgrade be-
lieved Italy was about to make
fresh overtures to bring Yugo-
slavia into the Rome Berlin camp
to counter the system of guar
antees against aggression which
Britain and France were building
in Eastern and Southern Europe.
Ut was supposed at the Yugo-
Slav capital that Italy would at
tempt to capitalize on her recent
conquest of Albania, Yugoslavias
neighbor, by continued friendly
assurances to Yugoslavia.
(Yugoslav observers saw their
country's position as increasingly
delicate. Since she did not share
in the British French guarantees,
Yugoslavia was regarded as
vulnerable to Fascist pressure
The exact nature of yesterdays
Italian Hungarian conferences re-
manned secret, but observers in Rome
assumed they touched on Hungary S
desire for growth like that of Italy
and Germany.
Having tasted of expansion by her
absorption of Ruthenia tCarpathO-
Ukraine) and part of Slovakia in the
dismemberment of Czecho-Slovakia
Hungary main claims are centered
now on Western Rumania and
Northern Yugoslavia, where lie ter
ritories once part of the Austro-
Hungarian empire.
Csaky Hits Roosevelt Appeal.
Stefani, official Italian news
agency, published an interview with
Hungarian Foreign Minister Count
Stephen Csaky in which the visitor
was quoted as calling President
Roosevelt's nonaggression appeal "an
unwelcome surprise"
Il believe there do not exist two
! Hungarians in the world who have
been able to forget the story Of the
IA points of the late President Will
son." the foreign minister said.
Csaky was in Rome with Premier
Teleky for talks with Premier Mus
solini and Foreign Minister Ciano.
"All Hungarians, whether they live
in Hungary or are still outside the
Hungarian borders, remember every
moment of their lives the unfortu-
nate IA points" Csaky observed.
They do not forget that the
Treaty of Trianon (Which ended the
World War for Hungary and fixed
her diminished boundaries) was the
result of the IA points, because there
is no one that does not see that the
effects of the precarious peace estab-
hshed on that base still continue tc
poison day by day the lives of in
dividuals and relations among peo-
pies"
Hungary was one of the 81 ma.
tions to which Mr.. Roosevelt asked
Premier Mussolini and Reichs-
fuehrer Hitler to pledge non -aggres-
sion.
Criticism of Roosevelt Mounts.
italian criticism Of President
Roosevelt for his appeal to Mussolin
and Reichsfuehrer Hitler for non-
aggression assurances mounted ir
intensity.
The anti-American press cam.
paign took a personal tone with
newspapers publishing caricature.
and diatribes against the President
whom they accused Of joining what
Italians and Germans regard q.
French British moves to "encircle'
Italy and Germany.
The United States Embassy, which
had protested in the past against
such campaigns, forwarded example.
of the criticism to Washington, but
no formal action was taken here.
The official answer to Mr.. Roose-
velt was withheld to be co-ordinateC
with Hitler's reply before the Ger.
man Reichstag April %.
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] fense of territory"