File No. 763.72/12059
The Minister in Rumania ( Vopicka) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 3, 2 p.m.]
No. 125. Two weeks ago I renewed my request for permission to send cipher telegrams, stating that I wish to communicate to the Department a very important affair regarding Roumania. Yesterday evening the Prime Minister … sent for me and told me that the Germans consented to send my cipher telegrams and that I can also receive from the Department in cipher. Many telegrams have been sent by me personally and by the Allied ministers here but I do not know whether they have reached the Department, therefore I quote substance of them.
The Roumanians very anxiously expected to hear from the President whether they have any hope to receive Transylvania at the peace conference. The reported declaration of the President communicated here by wireless from Lyons that the Italians and Roumanians of Austria-Hungary probably would prefer to join their original countries caused great enthusiasm here and now the President is idolized by the Roumanians. The French and English Governments have promised to Roumania, if she will enter the war, Transylvania, [Bukovina] and part of the Banat, but they wanted to have our country confirm this agreement but the President proclaimed that the nations of Austria-Hungary can choose their future destiny and therefore could not do what the Roumanians wanted. But now they are satisfied because they know that the Roumanians of Transylvania will select either their independence or will join Roumania. I believe that for their sacrifice in the war they deserve consideration.
Day before yesterday an Allied airplane arrived here from Saloniki and brought the request from the Allied military authorities that Roumania should prepare for necessary action. It was assured yesterday by the French military [attaché] here who has charge of the matter that the Roumanians will again take up arms on the side of the Allies as soon as necessary and the danger is not too great for them. Myself and our military [attaché] are in constant communication with the two generals who will lead the Roumanian troops and from them we have received the same information.
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