Council of Foreign Ministers Files: Lot M–88: CFM London Documents
Memorandum by the United States Delegation to the Council of Foreign Ministers
Suggested Directive to the Deputies From the Council of Foreign Ministers To Govern Them in the Drafting of a Treaty of Peace With Rumania
Note: This suggested directive is submitted by the United States Delegation with the understanding that the United States will not negotiate a treaty of peace with Rumania until there has been established a government broadly representative of all democratic elements in the population and pledged to the earliest possible establishment through free elections of a government responsive to the will of the people, which can be recognized by the United States.
i. territorial provisions for rumania
- 1.
- The frontier with the U.S.S.R. shall be that established by the Soviet-Rumanian Agreement of 28th June, 1940.
- 2.
- The frontier with Hungary shall be, in general, the frontier existing in 1938, except that as regards Transylvania determination regarding the whole or the greater part to go to Rumania shall be made after examining the respective claims of the two states.
- 3.
- The frontier with Yugoslavia will remain unchanged.
- 4.
- The frontier with Bulgaria will remain unchanged.
ii. politico-economic provisions
International agreements for the control of the Danube should be confirmed by the treaty.
III. IV. V. [These articles are the same, mutatis mutandis, as articles III, V, and VI in Suggested Directive for Bulgaria (C.F.M.(45) 35), supra.]
vi. Reparations
The treaty should provide for the delivery to the U.S.S.R. of reparations in kind as stipulated in Article 11 of the Armistice. It should also provide for the determination of the compensation payable to other countries as stipulated in Article 11 of the Armistice and for completing the restoration of Allied property in Rumania to its owners or payment therefor when the property is not returned in good [Page 267] order as required by Article 13 of the Armistice. The determination of the amounts payable by Rumania on account of claims for property in Rumania, and the supervision of Rumania’s execution of the treaty provisions with regard to reparations, restoration of Allied property and compensation for damage should be vested in an Allied Commission composed of representatives of the U.S.S.R., the United Kingdom, the United States and France.
The satisfaction of claims against Rumania on the part of countries other than the U.S.S.R. should be made primarily from Rumanian assets abroad. Consequently, the Rumanian Government shall authorize each of the United Nations to take over and apply to their respective reparation claims such of the assets of the Rumanian Government (excluding diplomatic and consular premises) and of Rumanian nationals as are within the jurisdiction of the respective United Nations. Similarly, the Rumanian Government shall undertake to transfer to the United Nations, other than the U.S.S.R., Rumanian government and private property in the neutral countries. The Rumanian Government will undertake to indemnify, in accordance with Rumanian law, the Rumanian nationals whose property will thus have been requisitioned. Each of the United Nations will be free to allocate the amount received from Rumania to the indemnification of the State or its nationals, or the payment of debts, as it may determine as a matter of national policy.
The Rumanian Government shall be required to recognize the transfer to the U.S.S.R., in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 9 of the Potsdam decision on German reparations, of German assets in Rumania. (This transfer shall be made by the Allied Control Council in Germany.)
VII. VIII. [These articles are the same, mutatis mutandis, as articles VIII and IX in Suggested Directive for Bulgaria (C.F.M.(45) 35), supra.]