File No. 763.72/9025
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Rumania ( Vopicka)
163. It has been represented to this Government that the Governments of Great Britain, France, Italy and the United States should make a declaration to the King of Roumania defining specifically the principles which they have determined to adopt in view of the grave conditions which confront the Roumanian people in spite of their unswerving loyalty and courage in maintaining the struggle against the Central Powers.
You are accordingly instructed to represent to the King and to the Government of Roumania that this Government is unwilling to unite in a joint declaration as suggested but that acting independently it desires to give assurance that it will, so far as it may, give support to the following propositions:
- (1)
- That in any treaty of peace to which the United States is a party, the political and territorial integrity of Roumania shall be adequately safeguarded.
- (2)
- That the people of Roumania shall have entire freedom in the determination of their Government.
- (3)
- That the Government of the United States will consider with the Governments of its co-belligerents the furnishing of financial and other means necessary to maintain the Roumanian Government and Roumanian Army whether the same are located within or outside the national territorial limits of Roumania.
- (4)
- That measures or actions by the Central Powers or their allies in the invaded territory of Roumania will be considered as null and void in so far as they adversely affect the title or authority of Roumania and its allies.
- (5)
- That the United States is determined to continue with all its resources of men and of national wealth, its struggle against the Central Powers until the principles for which it entered the war have been attained.