Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72119/2377R

The Secretary of State to the Rumanian, Chargé ( Lahovary)

No. 8
Washington, October 25, 1918.

Sir: I have the honor to enclose herewith certain communications which have passed between the Government of the United States and the Government of Germany, relative to an armistice and the terms [Page 783] of a treaty of peace between the belligerents in the present war, with the request that you transmit the same to your Government.1

The President instructs me to make request that your Government take this correspondence under careful consideration and communicate at its convenience its views and conclusions concerning it.

This is specially desirable because reference in this correspondence to “invaded territory” includes Roumania.

The Government of the United States is further prompted to bring this matter to the attention of your Government because it has appreciated that the treaties of peace concluded between Roumania and the Central Powers were agreed to only because of the disastrous consequences which would have resulted from further military resistance by the Roumanian armies. Allow me to assure you that the Government of the United States appreciates the present position of Roumania and wishes in no way to make that position more difficult; at the same time it is deemed the part of friendship to consult Roumania, especially where her interests are concerned to so important a degree as now.

Accept [etc.]

Robert Lansing
  1. The correspondence with Germany was also submitted, on Oct. 23, to the representatives of other governments; see ante, p. 383.↩