771.74/148: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Thurston) to the Secretary of State
[Received 1:15 p.m.]
1149. Aside from the brief announcement reported in the Embassy’s 10946 and the reference to the German-Italian guaranty of Rumania contained in the despatch from the Kishinev correspondent published in Pravda on September 9 (see Embassy’s en clair 1139, September 95) concerning the reasons for Carol’s abdication, the Moscow papers have up to the present time made no reference to this Italian-German action. On the other hand, in conformity with the previously expressed attitude of the Soviet Government, the Soviet press has commented favorably on the transfer of southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria. A short signed article in Trud of September 10th entitled “The Liquidation of the Injustice of Neuilly”7 lays emphasis on Rumanian misrule of the Bulgarian minorities in that region and concludes that “now after the signing of the treaty at Craiova the injustice legalized in 1919 by the Anglo-French imperialists at Neuilly in regard to the southern Dobrudja has been liquidated.” The Soviet press further this morning publishes communiqué from the Commissariat for [Page 507] Foreign Affairs to the effect that the Bulgarian Minister to Moscow conveyed to Molotov yesterday the gratitude of his Government for the “moral support given by the Soviet Government to Bulgaria in the settlement of the question of the southern Dobrudja.”
Repeated to Sofia and Bucharest.