611.7131/107: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Rumania ( Wilson )
19. Your 29, August 4, 4 p.m., and 30, August 5, 1 a.m. For purposes of provisional agreement now under consideration, you may withdraw proposal for new paragraph regarding national treatment of shipping and agree to paragraph 2 of Article I substantially as in Rumanian draft originally submitted. Department suggests, however, that minor textual changes proposed in its telegram 17, July 28, 7 p.m., be adopted and also that in lieu of clause “as well as ships, in everything concerning navigation in the waters and ports of the other country” the following sentence be added to the paragraph “Likewise, the vessels of each country in everything concerning navigation in the ports and territorial waters of the other country, shall enjoy most-favored-nation treatment.” These proposals are textual and need not be insisted upon if definitely unacceptable.
You should make it clear that in agreeing to omission of provision for national treatment of shipping you do so without prejudice to this Government’s position on the question of principle involved or to proposals which it will make for the inclusion of such provisions in the definitive treaty.