800.51 W 89Rumania/54: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Rumania (Jay)
24. Bibesco67 was received by the Secretary on April 9 and was advised of the representations which you had been instructed to make to the Rumanian Government. See Department’s 22, April 9, 1 p.m. [Page 174] A copy of the note quoted in that communication was later furnished him.
Bibesco was clearly informed of the great weight which this Government attached to receiving early assurances from the Rumanian Government that appropriate action would be taken in meeting the views of this Government with regard to the funding of its indebtedness for advances made after the armistice for relief and reconstruction.
Bibesco indicated that he had received word from his Government with regard to the proposed negotiations with the Standard Oil Company. In this connection Bibesco was informed that the attitude of this Government in asserting its clear rights could not be conditioned upon arrangements which might be reached with private American companies but that if these arrangements were of a character to facilitate action toward meeting its obligations to the United States, the Department would of course be glad to see a solution reached which would tend toward the settlement of outstanding questions both between the Rumanian Government and this Government and between the Rumanian Government and private American interests and nationals.
- Prince Antoine Bibesco, Rumanian Minister at Washington.↩