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...More important were the Mehrer's "treaties." One with Lithuania made that country increasingly a Nazi economic domain. And an unprecedented economic agreement with Rumania, signed under a virtual threat of invasion, gave the Reich almost all the oil, wheat and agricultural produce of King Carol's large and fertile domains. Just to make things official, Aggrandizer Hitler also formally assumed a 25-year protectorate over Slovakia. To show that he had interests out side of Europe, the Mehrer signed a "most-favored-nation" commercial treaty with Manchukuo, Japan's Far Eastern satellite...
...Kingdom of Rumania last week signed a trade treaty with the Third Reich which, in effect, converted Rumania from an independent nation to a German dependency. In no instance of modern times has one State made such humiliating, far-reaching economic concessions to another as Rumania's King Carol II made in Bucharest last week to Dr. Helmuth Wohlthat, Führer Hitler's traveling salesman...
Czech territory. Meanwhile, Premier Volosin, failing to get protection from Führer Hitler or assistance from Rumania's King Carol, fled into Rumania in a peasant's oxcart...
...share of her trade while refusing to surrender any political rights. Discussions were described as "progressing amicably," which probably meant that Rumania would be as tractable as she thought necessary, would stanchly refuse to give in if backed by Britain and France. Meanwhile, just in case of trouble, King Carol ordered some 500,000 soldiers to man Rumania's western frontiers...
Rumania's notification to Britain and France was said in responsible quarters to have been conveyed by King Carol II's ministers to London and Paris who pointed out that Rumania has been placed in a "difficult position" as a result of Chancellor Adolf Hitler's seizure of the war born republic of Czechoslovakia...