31 AUGUST 1944, page 10

The Rumanians On The Other Hand Can Plead With Considerable

justification that they were forced into hostility towards us by circumstances beyond their control. We in this country have been apt during the last twenty years to interpret......

Inipired As They Were By Fear Of Russia, Attaching As

they did a perhaps exaggerated importance to the retention of Bessarabia, un- willing to succumb to German economic and political domination, the Rumanian people turned......

Marginal Comment

By HAROLD NICOLSON T HE abandonment of Germany by Rumania and Bulgaria has I not aroused in this country the interest which might have been expected. To a large extent the news......

There Are, However, Certain Things Which At This Moment Sve

should bear in mind. Bandits of the type of Horia Sima, or atm trics such as Codreano or antiL-semites such as A. C. Cuza are in no sense representative of Rumanian thought or......

It Is Doubtful Whether On This Occasion The British Public

will be stirred to any warmth of sympathy for the Bulgarian predicament. Even if Bulgaria's " complete neutrality " merges into co-belligerency it is questionable whether this......