Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1925, Volume I

800.51 W 89Rumania/89: Telegram

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

Bucharest , August 30, 1925—10 a.m.
[Received August 30—9:40 a.m.]

72. Department’s 50, August 22, 3 p.m.⁷¹ In the course of a conversation yesterday, Minister of Foreign Affairs, who leaves for Geneva September 1st, presented formal written note signed by himself of which following is close translation:

“Following the declarations which I have already made to you, Roumanian Government has decided to send during the course of this autumn, a commission to the United States to examine with the American Government the bases on which an arrangement might be reached as regards the debts of Roumania to the United States.

This commission will have the right to treat and eventually to sign an arrangement with the American Government.”⁷²

Minister of Foreign Affairs stated commission will probably reach Washington around October 1st and certainly by the 15th, but although pressed to do so declined to embody any date specification in note.

King returns September 2d but Foreign Office states he will probably not be able to receive Culbertson until week later.⁷³

Riggs

71. Not printed.
72. For negotiations with the World War Foreign Debt Commission and text of agreement signed Dec. 4, 1925, see Combined Annual Reports of the World War Foreign Debt Commission, pp. 52 and 241–253.
73. Mr. Culbertson presented his credentials on September 12.