File No. 763.72119/1558
The Ambassador in France (Sharp) to the Secretary of State
[Received 9.15 p.m.]
3545. Following joint telegram of Allied Ministers dated Jassy, April 5:
The Commissioner of the People for Foreign Affairs has advised the French Consul General at Moscow of proposition to bring to end the conflict between the Maximalists and Rumania. This proposition which comes too late, no longer appears, as regards the representatives of the Allied powers, in harmony with the new situation. First, our intervention on this point would be prompted by the preoccupation [sic] of prolonging the resistance of Rumania and rendering possible by means of a rapprochement between her and the Maximalists the revictualing of the army and its eventual retreat into Russia; secondly, one of the essential points of the matters in dispute, viz., the exchange of interned persons and hostages, has already been settled between the Rumanian Government and the Soviets of Odessa and Sevastopol through the intermediary of Colonel Fuller [Boyle?]. If we ourselves intervene in the negotiations relative to the Rumanian treaty at Moscow, we should risk giving Maximalists an opportunity to raise other questions, in particular that of the Rumanian occupation of Bessarabia, which would embarrass our Governments. Under these circumstances it would be preferable to leave to the Rumanian Government the duty of soliciting our intervention if it is thought proper to do so.