File No. 763.72119/2446
The Minister in Rumania (Vopicka) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 1, 1.50 p.m.]
124. In addition to the Allied ministers’ telegram of today and my telegram No. 121 (?),2 I beg to say that I am daily besieged by Roumanians who wish to have information from me regarding Transylvania. They seem to consider that their future is in the hands of America only. Of course all the old ministers of the Liberal Party, who favored the war on the side of the Entente, consider the question of Transylvania life or death for themselves and for Roumania. The National Council of Roumanians in Transylvania proclaimed their independence in the Hungarian Parliament. There were many meetings of Roumanians held in different parts of Transylvania indorsing this programme and proclaiming themselves in favor of union with Roumania. The Roumanians here ask the President of the United States, before the peace is made with Austria, to be in favor of the independence of Transylvania as they do not wish to have anything to do with Hungarians who always maltreated and persecuted them.
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