340.1115A/339: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 28—10:21 a.m.]
1146. Following telegram has been sent Bucharest:
Your December 18, 7 p.m. The Soviet Government is insisting upon receiving confirmation from the Rumanian Legation in Moscow of the arrangement outlined in your telegram under reference in regard to the admission into Rumania of American citizen [s] at present in Soviet-occupied Poland without Rumanian visas. I will greatly appreciate your doing everything possible to expedite the despatch of an instruction to Rumanian Legation here to confirm to the Soviet Government the above arrangement, if possible today, as the matter is extremely urgent. A Secretary of this Embassy has been for some time in Lwow awaiting the permission of the Soviet Government to evacuate a considerable number of American citizens from this region. The evacuation is now only contingent on the telegram from the Rumanian Foreign Office to its Legation here referred to above.