Germany and Mittel-Europa
The conversations which have recently taken place at Bucarest between Dr. Stoyadinovitch, Prime Minister of Jugoslavia, and M. Tatarescu, Prime Minister of Rumania, appear to have isolated Germany still further. According to the Czech official telegraph agency, the conversations strengthened the co-operation ; but, what is of greater interest, they appear also to have -been a preliminary to an improvement in the relations between the Little Entente States and Italy. The desire for such an improvement has been the result of the Anglo- Italian Mediterranean agreement ; as a step towards it M. Tatarescu will try to effect a rapprochement between Italy and Rumania, which has already decided to establish a consulate in Addis Ababa. On the other hand, as a sign of improved relations with France, Bucarest newspapers have announced the approaching visit to Rumania of the French Ministers of Commerce and Foreign Affairs. And while on Tuesday the French Chamber unanimously voted a loan to Poland for rearmament and public works, on the same day the Belgrade paper Politika asserted that Jugoslavia, despite Germany's debt to her of £1,600,000, would take no more German imports. It seems as if the design for a German hegemony in Mittel-Europa is farther from realisation than ever.
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