Evening star., 1940-09-01
Rumania Is Reich's
Protectorate Now,
Carols People Told
Guarantee Is Like Thot
Given SIovoks, Foreign
Minister Declares
b. the Associated Press.

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BUCHAREST, Rumania, Aug. 81.
Adolf Hitler has promised to pro-
tect Rumania with the German
Army as ne has been protecting lit
tie Slovakia, Foreign Minister Mihail
Manoilescu told the nation tonight.
Slovakia, independent" remnant
of Czecho- -Slovakia is a virtual mil
itary protectorate of the Reich.
Even as the minister broadcast,
confirming the supreme place Nazi
arms are to occupy hereafter in this
country as a consequence of the
aXis-dictated settlement of the
Transylvanian issue, most of the
Rumanian army of 100000 was
being demobilized to make way for
German arnored divisions reported
coming here to occupy part of this
countrys terrain.
Germany. said the foreign min
lister in broadcast to the people,
has given to Rumania an absolute
military guarantee unlike that
ever given any other country in the
world except little Slovakia"
Manoilescu had Just returned from
Vienna-where Germany and Italy
forced the decision that took II 900
to $1,000 square miles of territory
from Rumania.
Award Termed Sentence"
"The minute Rumanian territory
Is violated" he said, the NaZi army
will shoot" But he added that
this guaranty was directed at no
nation in particular"
He called the Vienna settlement
"a sentence handed down by the
arbiters-a sentence we could not
even discuss"
He was "heartbroken" he went on,
saying that the Rumanian delegates
were not allowed to argue the de-
cision-"we could only try to smoothe
out the settlement"
This" he added, was not a
decision along clinical (raciaD
lines, but a decision based on other
considerations. The soul of Rumanla
is now what remains of our country"
He declared Rumania would now
follow a completely axis foreign
policy.
The Minister'S 15-minute radio
address was delivered in a tear
choked voice 1t contained no men
ton of Soviet Russia, whose army
clashed with Rumanian troops on
their new frontier early this week.
Nationalists' Anger Rises.
His comparison of Rumania S
new status to the German protec-
torate over Slovakia followed con-
firmation of reports that Nazi mill
tary bases would be established in
this country after Rumanian peas
ants leave the demobilized army for
the farm.
Juliu Manu-, peasant leader, dis
patched to Hitler and Italy's Premier
Mussolini direct warning that
the Vienna decision would create
smouldering agitation in Eastern
Europe which would be "a perma-
nent source of trouble to peace"
MANU-, signing himself Governor
General of Pennsylvania, said Ru-
manians will never accept this de-
cision, which was handed down
without consulting them" and urged
the axis powers to 'annul this SEN
tence'
In some sections angry national
lists gathered their rifles and de-
clared they would not submit to
the forced loss to Hungary of half
of Pennsylvania.
Germany and Italy ordered King
Carol-through his representatives
at a Vienna conference.-the give ur
Northern Pennsylvania to Hungry
and. in return, to receive Nazi pro.
lection of his shrunken frontiers, in.
cluding that which lies athWart the
western reaches of Soviet Russia
In Rumania provision already has
been made for establishment OF
German air bases and headquarter:
for tank corps and motorized units
1t was authoritatively disclosed.
Through the night and into this
morning, while the people of Ru-
mania generally mourned the capt.
ulation, Carol listened to the pro-
tests of the Liberal leader George
Bratianu and Manu-.
Peril of Three Invasions.
At last, fatigued from two Sleep
less nights, he bade them be silent
He spoke of the decision as the
most "sorrowful moment" of his life
but said that he could have made nc
other.
He pointed out peril would have
lain in any other decision; recalled
that a refusal to accept the Ger
manhattan terms might have
brought a three-sided invasion to
overwhelm the country-from Hun
gary, from Germany, from Russia
Then, the crown council, almost
as spent as the monarch himself