Paris Peace Conf. 181.9202/214: Telegram
General Bandholtz to the Commission to Negotiate Peace
[Received November 1—10 a.m.]
182. At Mission’s session this date it was decided to send Roumanians notice that committee on prisoner of war camps had found conditions such as to reflect great discredit on an Allied [and] Associated Power [and] to insist that all invalid prisoners and all civilians between 18 and 60 be immediately turned over to Hungarians, that so-called prisoners of war receive pay from date of arrest, that places for washing be supplied, that latrines be disinfected and made usable, that a reasonable sufficiency of food be furnished, that junior officers be treated as such, and that Hungarian Red Cross be treated according to customs of civilized warfare. Roumanians are sending to Budapest from Transylvania so many orphan children that the home cannot accommodate them and are persecuting all unorthodox religious denominations thus showing necessity for minorities clause in treaty. My colleagues are all thoroughly disgusted with our ally. Copy in duplicate of report on prisoner of war camps will go with my next memorandum.