Evening star., 1940-11-22
Gen. Anfonescu Talks
With Hitler in Berlin
For 81 Hours
Brilliant Reception
SIoted Tonight for
Rumuniun Visitors
By the Associated Press.

expected 10 ledQ 10 RuIndIlldll dQ'
herence to the Rome Berlin Toxic
axis. .ssSs
The Rumanians, Gen. Ion Anton.
escu and Prince Costin Sturza, en-.
gagged in lengthy conversations with
the Fuehrer at the Chancellery
where they were accorded military
honors by a Nazi guard before pro.
ceeding to Hitler's private quarters
the official DNB news agency an.
nounced.
Hitler's talks with Gen. Antonescl
lasted three and half hours, in
formed sources said. At $50 pm
the Rumanian dictator left the
Reich's Chancellery, accompanied b!
his chief OF protocol, and returned
to Bellevue Castle, Berlin's CUES
house for state visitors.
The Hotel Adlon will be the seen,
tonight of brilliant reception fo
Gen. Antonescu and his party, givei
by Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim
Won Ribbentrop. 81
1t was taken for granted Rumanii
would join the anti-British totali
tartan bloc, as Hungary did Wed
nesday at Vienna. Bulgaria ant
Slovakia, little remnant of NaZi
dissolved Czecho-Slovakia, are ex
pected to follow suit soon.
Passage of Troops.
Qn the Rumanian capital, the
Bucharest Tageblatt printed
dispatch from its Berlin corre-
spondent quoting authorized Ger
man sources as saying that the
axis alliance implies that passive
consent" is given for the passage
of German troops through any
signatory country If the neces-
sity should arise. The newspaper
expressed the opinion that Ru-
mania soon would become a sig
natory.
Qn Sofia, German Bulgarian
conferences were concluded
when Franz Won Papen, German
Ambassador to Turkey, departed
by air for his post at Ankara,
after talking last night with Bull
garian Premier Bogdan Philoff
and Foreign Minister Ivan Pop
off. The German envoy did not
see King Boris, who conferred
last Sunday with Hitler. He ar
rived in IStanbul this afternoon
and was expected to 60 on to
Ankara tonightD
The wide scope of the Rumanians
talks in Berlin was indicated by the
size of the delegation accompanying
Gen. Antonescu and Prince Sturza
Included in the party were Labor
Minister Vasile Iasinci and CONNER
cial and military officials.
1t was learned that DR.. Valerian
Pop, member of Gen, Antopescu's
council, had been in Berlin for some
time on special mission" and had
conferred with Hitler. eF
The new Rumanian Minister tt
Berlin, George Cretziano, also pre-.
sented hts credentials to the
Fuehrer, informed quarters an
aounced.
Prior to the conference with Hit
Ter, the Rumanians were received
briefly by Won Ribbentrop, who ac-
companied them to see the Nazi
chieftain.
Gen. Antonescu and Prince Sturza
were met at the Anhalter Railroad
Station by Won Ribbentrop and es-
corted to Bellevue Castle.
The Rumanians will leave Berlin
Sunday morning; President Joseph
Tiso and Premier Bella Tuka of Slo-
vakia are expected in Berlin the
same day.
Bulgarian statesmen probably will
confer with German diplomats in
some German city Monday or Tues
day. King Boris of Bulgaria saw
Hitler in the recent cycle of diplo-
matte visitors to Germany from
Hungary, Soviet Russia, Italy and
Spain.
If Rumania, Bulgaria and Slo-
vakia should sign up in the military
pol1tical-economic alliance against
any country which might join Brit
ain or China in war, only three
Balkan nations would remain out
side the fold.
They are Greece, already at war
with Italy; Turkey, a friend of
Britain, but, in the German view,
still undecided where finally to
and Yugoslavia, anxiously
(The Bulgarian public was re-
ported in Sofia dispatches to have
begun to ask openly whether their
country is pledged to cooperate
with the German Army should it
60 to its Fascist allys aid against
Greece. Although Bulgaria is at
peace, Sofia, her capital, went
under a partial blackout last
night. Rumanian dispatches from
Bulgaria said that country is
expected soon to serve a demand
on Greece for a corridor across
Thrace to the Aegean Sea-
Welcomed to Germany.
Accompanied by the German Am
bassador to Rumania, Wilhelm
the Rumanian statesmen
we're welcomed to German soil yes
terday by Nazi delegation headed
by Baron Alexander Won Doernberg,
protocol chief of the German For
eign Office.
The German press, meanwhile,
stressed the voluntary nature of de-
veiopments which brought Hungary
Into the pact.
Dienst aus Deutschland, we'll
Informed news commentary, declared
mot force but an internal, logical
consequence" led to Hungary's
action"