871.014 Bessarabia/3: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Wallace)

1539. Your 1765, September 29, 8 P.M.

In view of the consistent refusal of this Government to approve a policy which tended toward the dismemberment of Russia, as so recently emphasized in the note to the Italian Ambassador,4 you should inform your colleagues that you have been instructed not to sign at this time any treaty disposing of Bessarabia. You should add that it is the Department’s opinion that hasty action in this matter would only tend to give the Bolsheviki another pretense for arousing national spirit on the ground that the Allies were disposing of Russian territory at a time when a representative Russian Government could not be heard.

Repeat to Legation Bucharest, as Dept’s 62 and Embassy London as 1057 for their information.

Colby
  1. Note of Aug. 10, p. 463.