M. Titulescu's Return The political situation in Rumania, where M.
Tatarescu's new Ministry will be in office until the General Election at Christmas, has been complicated by the astonishing pact suddenly concluded by the two Opposition parties. The National Peasants Party, under Dr. Maniu, is the largest and most radical opposition party ; while Dr. Codreanu's Iron Guard is an organisation of the most Fascist type. Moreover, the National Peasants are dissatisfied with the pro-German policy of M. Antonescu, the Foreign Minister, while the Iron Guard, as Dr. Codreanu recently announced, would conclude a pact with Hitler the day after coming to power. This strange alliance has already had an equally surprising result in the return from exileof M. Titulescu, whom in 1936 the Iron Guard threatened to assassinate. One of the terms of the pact is that the Iron Guard shall drop this threat, while M. Titulescu will fight the election as a representative of the National Peasants Party, to which he does not belong. The sole purpose of the alliance is to ensure that the elections shall take place with a minimum of interference. It seems curious, therefore, that the National _Peasants should recently have refined to enter a coalitiodand take office, where they could have ensured more efficiently that the elections Should either be free or controlled in their own interest. "
