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

File No. 763.72112/9937

The Assistant to the Counselor for the Department of State ( Auchincloss) to the Commercial Adviser of the British Embassy ( Crawford)

Washington, August 30, 1918.

My Dear Sir Richard: I have your note of August 24, 1918,² in which you ask me to inform you whether the State Department concurs in the proposal that, in communicating to the Roumanian Government the restrictions imposed on the transmission of funds, it should be clearly intimated that these restrictions have become necessary by reason of the terms of the Bucharest treaty, and that the communication should also reaffirm the determination of the Allies to secure a revision of that treaty at the peace conference. I have taken this matter up with the Secretary and I beg to advise you that he is not prepared at present to give an expression of opinion on this point.

I am [etc.]

Gordon Auchincloss

2. Not printed.