871.014 Bessarabia/1: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France ( Wallace )
1099. Referring to Embassy’s despatch 1172 of May 7, asking to be instructed regarding this Government’s participation in a treaty relating to Bessarabia between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers and Rumania. This Government has steadily refused to become involved in discussion of Rumania’s claims in province of Bessarabia, and at meetings of Supreme Council last autumn the attitude of the United States was made entirely clear. At a convenient opportunity, therefore, you should reiterate this Government’s position, and state that the United States must again decline to become a party to any treaty tending to Russia’s dismemberment.