On Feb. 27, the states of the Balkan Entente (Greece, Rumania, Turkey and Yugoslavia) declared that they intended to remain faithful to the League of Nations; that, since Yugoslavia already had recognized the Italian conquest of Ethiopia and Rumania had decided to do so, Greece and Turkey should do likewise; and that their policy of non-intervention in Spain should continue. On April 11, two conferences met in Istanbul to consider economic and trade conditions among them. At Salonika the premiers of the four countries, on July 31, signed an agreement renouncing the military penalties imposed on Bulgaria by the Treaties of Neuilly (1919) and Lausanne (1923), while Bulgaria signed non-aggression pacts with the Balkan Entente states. The pact, which had the approval of Great Britain, France and Italy, regularized Bulgaria's existing evasion of the armament restrictions, but also furnished an example of treaty revision by mutual agreement rather than by unilateral action. Improved relations among these various states were shown also by the signing of a preliminary commercial accord between Greece and Bulgaria, by an agreement between Yugoslavia and Bulgaria for removing armed equipment along their frontiers, and by the British-French loan to Bulgaria in August. However, nationalistic agitations in Bulgaria, late in November, for return of territories ceded to Yugoslavia and Rumania by the Treaty of Neuilly, threatened to shake the new appeasement in the Balkans. The meeting of the general staffs of the Entente in Athens, beginning Nov. 28, emphasized the importance of adequate defense for Rumania, Yugoslavia and Greece, especially against irredentist movements in Hungary and Bulgaria. See also BULGARIA.
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