740.00119 EW 1939/2665: Telegram
The Ambassador to the Yugoslav Government in Exile (MacVeagh) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 13—8:50 a.m.]
Yugos 120. Yesterday the Rumanian emissaries received from Maniu through Cretzianu a message in the following sense:
“Maniu agrees to conclude an armistice upon the conditions presented by the Allies. The means of putting the armistice into application are in process of being established in agreement with those responsible and will be communicated to you in a few days.
The patriotic democratic bloc has been formed.
In view of the fact that the conditions of the armistice have been accepted, we are convinced that we shall obtain an amelioration of these conditions when they are applied as repeatedly declared by the Allies.”
The Allied representatives are at a loss to understand the last sentence above, since they have promised no amelioration of the armistice terms but on the contrary have emphasized repeatedly the statement in the terms themselves that these “can be changed for the worse if Rumania does not accept them soon”.
Today the British received a radio message from Rumania asking for safelanding at Aleppo of a plane bearing three more Rumanians who wish to contact Prince Stirbey. The Allied representatives have decided to permit this, as Novikov has not yet received Moscow’s approval of the proposed statement in my Yugos 111, June 1 that conversations are at an end.
Repeated to Algiers for Murphy as number 8.