Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Supplement 1, The World War, Volume I

File No. 763.72/10245

The Secretary of State to the Director of the Bureau of Enemy Trade, War Trade Board ( McGonigal)

Washington, June 13, 1918.

Sir: In reply to your inquiry of June 1, 1918,¹ the Department begs to inform you that for purposes of the dispatch of postal correspondence and the remittance of funds, Roumania should be regarded, for the present, as territory occupied by the enemy. For your information, I may add that there is no consular office of the United States in Roumania at present.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

William Phillips

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