PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM LORD HALIFAX FOR THE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION 
      OF THE PRESIDENT.
 
      
 
 
King Carol assured his Majesty's Minister at Bucharest on 
      March 20th that there had at no moment been any question of a 
      German ultimatum although there was much that was unpalatable 
      in German proposals. King Carol stated that Romania would resist 
      German pressure but could not do so indefinitely without support. 
      King Carol hesitated however to give His Majesty's Minister detailed 
      information of the German proposals. Romanian General Staff also 
      remained worried at the news of mobilization preparations in 
      Germany and troop movements in Czechoslovakia, which they consider 
      greater than are warranted by recent events. They are convinced 
      that Hungary would not resist passage of German troops through 
      that country.
 
      Preliminary replies have now been received to the enquiries mentioned 
      in paragraph 5 of Lord Halifax's message of March 21st. The Greek 
      Prime Minister stated that in the event of aggression against 
      Romania, Greece would fulfill her obligations under the Balkan 
      Pact. As regards the guarantee of the Romanian frontier, which 
      went beyond limits of the Balkan Pact, Greece would examine objectively 
      and in collaboration with Turkey and Yugoslavia any Romanian 
      proposal, while taking deep account of eventual attitude of Great 
      Britain and France. In his