800.51 W 89Rumania/76: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Rumania ( Riggs )

44. Bibesco informed Department July 15 that he was being called back to Bucharest for consultation and that he could inform Department that Rumanian Government was shortly to make proposals to this Government through you with respect to its indebtedness to the United States.

Press July 17th states that problem of relief indebtedness will receive serious consideration at Bucharest before arrival of new American Minister.69 According to Associated Press despatch from Bucharest the Rumanian Government is preparing to send a commission of experts to the United States for preliminary discussion of arrangements for funding the war debt.

Kellogg
  1. William S. Culbertson had been appointed Minister to Rumania on April 28, to succeed Peter A. Jay, who had been appointed Ambassador to Argentina on March 18.