861.77 Chinese Eastern/671: Telegram
The Minister in Czechoslovakia (Einstein) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 13—8:09 a.m.]
60. Rumanian Minister for Foreign Affairs, now in Prague, told me last night that the Polish Government had just requested him to delay Rumanian representations to the Soviet and Chinese for concerted action with Poland and the Baltic States. Both Rumanian and Czechoslovak Ministers of Foreign Affairs expressed their opinion to me that Poland as a neighbor of Russia felt reluctant to irritate the Bolsheviks. The Rumanian Minister told me that he had advised Warsaw that he feared the request came too late; he had already sent instructions from Paris to Bucharest to associate action with ours but he would try to recall these if possible.