No meetings of the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Yugoslavia) took place during 1939. The dismemberment and destruction of Czechoslovakia during the autumn of 1938 has left only two members, despite the assertion of Dr. Benes, in his appeal to the League of Nations in June, that 'Czechoslovakia still maintains her legal existence,' although temporarily unable to appear in Geneva in full exercise of her rights. Many states have refused to acknowledge that Czechoslovakia no longer exists. The other two members, Rumania and Yugoslavia, belong also to the apparently still-existent Balkan Entente. The Little Entente, formed in 1933, was directed chiefly against the revisionist claims of Hungary (and Bulgaria), and received its principal outside support from France and Poland. Its dissolution may remove some of the outstanding obstacles that have separated Hungary from its Danubian neighbors and other states. Both Yugoslavia and Rumania in the early summer appeared conciliatory in their attitudes toward Hungary; but the events following the Soviet attack upon Finland and the rumors of a move against Rumania failed to produce either a relaxation of the territorial claims between Hungary and Rumania or substantial agreements of other nature. See also CZECHOSLOVAKIA.
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