871.63/10: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Rumania (Jay)
44. Legation’s telegram 60 of November 13, 3 p.m. In the absence of more definite information it is difficult for the Department to give detailed instructions. It is appreciated, however, that you may find such information available only when the proposed mining legislation is definitely drafted and that action may be desirable to meet the situation before it is too late. You should, therefore, make an appropriate protest if a mining bill with the objectionable provisions outlined in points 1 and 4 of your 60, November 13, 3 p.m., is being or should be seriously considered, as measures of the nature described would appear to be such as would seriously [Page 598] prejudice existing American rights and interests. It is not clear that a protest would be justified respecting points 2 and 3 unless the monopoly proposed under point 2 should lead to measures which might have a tendency toward confiscation.
Report further information as to proposed mining legislation as promptly as possible.
Your attention is confidentially invited to the situation which arose in Mexico.1 See May and September, 1923, Monthly Political Reports.2 There may be certain elements of similarity between the situation in Mexico and that which you may have to deal with in Rumania.
- See chapter on “Recognition of the Government of General Obregon by the United States and the Resumption of Diplomatic Relations,” Foreign Relations, 1923, vol. ii, pp. 522 ff.↩
- Not printed.↩