Germany's ministers to all the Balkan nations were mobilized last fortnight in Berlin, on the eve of this week's meeting of the Balkan Entente in Belgrade. The crisis of one of the decisive battles of the War was at hand a battle for the raw materials of the Balkans.
Rumania is already a battleground, between Germany and the Allies, over oil. Professor Gheron Netta, head of Rumania's Economic Institute, was appointed oil "dictator" to try: 1) to fulfill Rumania's promise of last December to send Germany 1,560,000 tons of oil in 1940; 2) to keep the Allies (whose nationals, together...
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