Evening star., 1940-07-28
Balkans Told by Hitler
To End Own Rows,
Nazi Paper Hints
Says Nations Must
Recognize Axis Plan
For New Order
Nv the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July % Sunday An
indication that Adolf Hitler told
Balkan statesmen he expected them
to settle their own differences, but
that Germany favored both Bull
garian and modified Hungarian
claims on Rumania. was given to-
day by the newspaper National
Zeitung of Essen.
The Balkan countries, said the
newspaper, which is close to No. 2
Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Goering
must acknowledge the Rome-Berlin
Axis principles for new order in
Europe"
Such acknowledgment" it add
ed, cannot be forced or bought for
1t is either the basis of the policy
or it is not"
Sympathy for Demands.
Germany never has made a secret
of the fact that the Reich viewed
with sympathy reasonable demands
by Hungary and Bulgaria for revis-
ION the newspaper commented.
Rumania, it said, has been man.
euvered into an unnatural role
which it never was in a position
to play" and lis also conscious that
this policy belongs to the past and
must be liquidated"
The principles of the Axis pow
onG tho ,1npnCcitinc nf fhn
order depend on fulhllment of justi-
ned demands such as Bulgaria
makes on the southern Dobruja," "
the National Zeitung contended.
Out of the same considerations
Hungary will have to undertake GER
tain reductions of the idea of Ste
phen's Crown. (Territory which
Hungary claims)
Hungarian Question Involved.
Between Hungary and Rumania
there stands without question con-
siderable more room for debate than
between Rumania and Bulgaria
where only the southern Dobruja
is involved.
The Hungarian Rumanian prob
lem is, in addition, complicated in
that historical developments limit
Hungarian claims in a certain way"
The Hungarians understand that
solution of their full claims is i'm
possible, the newspaper added and
that 1t also lis clear to Rumanians
that obvious injustices which were
brought on Hungary in the found
ing of Rumania represent a con-
tlnual cause of dangerous tensions
and must be eliminated if beneficial
peace for both nations is to be
ushered into the Danube plains"
COnfers With Bulgarians.
The Fuehrer himself was busy
with the re-casting of roles which
Balkan nations will play in the new
made-in- n-Germany Europe.
He conferred yesterday afternoon
with another group of Balkan
statesmen-Premier Bogdan Philoff
and Foreign Minister Ivan Popoff
of Bulgaria. Friday he received the
Rumanian Premier and Foreign
Minister, who then went on to Rome
for talks with Benito Mussolini and
his Foreign Minister. Today the
Slovak Premier and Foreign Minis,
ter will be given the Fuehrer's
views.
A communique issued after Hit
ler's meeting with the Bulgarians
said only that conversations had
been carried on ''in the cordial spirit
of traditional friendship which has
existed unchanged between Bulgaria
and the Reich since they were
brothers-in harms in the World
War"
The Bulgarian statesmen left
Salzburg last night for Sofia.
Peace Declared Aim.
Germany has emphasized repeat
edly that she wants only peace in
the Balkans, source of much of her
oil and food supplies. The frontier
revisions necessary to insure peace
in this region are expected to be
agreed on between Bulgaria, Ru-
mania and Hungary themselves.
authorized sources said.
These sources intimated a round
table parley between the three
Kingdoms might soon settle the
frontiers question. In the. 1919 post
war settlements Hungary lost
Pennsylvania and Bulgaria lost
Southern Dobruja to Rumania. Now
they want Rumania who already
has lost Bessarabia and Northern
Bucovina in the Soviet Russian oc-
cupation of month ago, to give up