File No. 763.72119/1679
The Ambassador in France ( Sharp ) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 23, 5.45 a.m.]
3956. Following joint telegram of the four Allied ministers dated Jassy, April [May] 18:
The following collective letter was sent by the four Allied ministers to the Minister for Foreign Affairs on May 14, 1918:
By your letters of April 26/May 9, you were good enough to inform us that peace between Roumania and the Central Empires was signed April 27 [24]/May 7. In their quality of representatives of the signatory powers or the Bucharest convention of August 17, 1916, the ministers of France, Great Britain and Italy confirm the statements which they have repeatedly made to your predecessors. On the other hand, as regards the terms, the four undersigned ministers, while leaving to their Governments the task of stating in a more precise manner their point of view, are under the obligation of declaring from now on that they consider as null and void all the stipulations of this peace which would be contrary to the principles the violation of which constrains the Entente to take up arms, and which are all contrary to the rights and interests of the powers which we represent.
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