The Little Entente and Hungary The Little Entente conference which
has been held this week at Sinaia in Rumania gained in interest, and perhaps in importance, through the contacts established during its session between various of its members and Italian and Hungarian representatives. It is clear that-both Germany and Italy, whose influence in Rumania and Jugoslavia is con- siderable, are doing their best to detach those two Little Entente States from the third . State, Czechoslovakia, and not without some success. Hungary's attitude is not so clear. Various indications point to a lessening of the tension between her and the Little Entente States, and if she is acting inde- pendently in her own interests the move may be important. Nothing could be better for the peace and prosperity of South Eastern Europe than close co-operation, formal or informal, between Austria and Hungary and the Little Entente countries. The individual States in that region will inevitably be objects of the ambitions of various Great Powers. Closely united they could largely free themselves from the incubus of outside interference. Good economic relations with both Germany and Italy are necessary to them, but that is perfectly consistent with full political independence.
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