871.6363/250: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Rumania (Jay)
51. The Department believes that at this time it might be undesirable to engage in a long exchange of notes regarding just one provision of Rumania’s mining law which is objectionable in so many features. The Department suggests, therefore, that you do not discuss details of Rumanian note56 in your reply but limit yourself to the statement that the first action taken under the law by the Rumanian Government has tended only to confirm the view of our Government [Page 647] as to the serious effect of this law upon American interests and that our Government can not reconcile the repeated statements of the Rumanian Government that rights which have been acquired would not be disturbed with a line of action which, if followed persistently, would take from American interests the opportunity of using in any profitable way certain rights validly obtained before the law was enacted.
The Department will not give further instructions until it receives report of your conversation with Rumanian Minister for Foreign Affairs.
The Department does not object to your making your reply at the same time as the British Minister does but the reply should not be joint.