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File No. 763.72112/8943

The Chargé in Great Britain ( Laughlin) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
London, June 7, 1918, 5 p.m.
[Received 7.13 p.m.]

10498. War Trade Board [from Sheldon]:

No. 744. A meeting has been held at the Foreign Office to discuss the question of remittance to Roumania in view of the recent peace treaty which places all Roumania’s railways, posts, telegraphs and [Page 780] indirectly banks under German control. The following recommendations were made in which it is hoped that you will concur:

[1]
That so far as remittances are concerned Roumania should be considered as a neutral in the same way as Finland and that Defense of the Realm Regulation No. 41b should be applied with the proviso that exceptions could be made under license;
(2)
That no distinction should be made in future between occupied and unoccupied Roumania;
(3)
That in bringing these decisions to the notice of the Roumanian Government it should be clearly stated that this action has been rendered necessary by the terms of the peace treaty and to again express the Allied determination to secure a revision of that treaty at the peace congress.

Laughlin