871.001 Carol II/6–2745: Telegram
The Acting American Representative in Rumania (Melbourne) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:10 p.m.]
438. Roumanian party leaders are now learning of the impending arrival of former King Carol in France and are generally disconcerted regarding the future since they conclude that Soviet insistence induced the French to permit his entry. (See my 424, June 22.19)
In view of the unsettled political state of Roumania the return of Carol to Europe undoubtedly will have disturbing internal effects here as first impressions are demonstrating. Thoughtful local sources express fears that the Russians, despite any possible previous commitments, may seek to replace King Michael by his compromised father who would be an amenable instrument in assisting in the destruction of popular sentiment toward the monarchy, the chief national rallying point under existing trying circumstances.20
Rptd Moscow as 115.
[President Truman, British Prime Minister Churchill (and later Prime Minister Attlee), and Soviet Premier Stalin, with their advisers, met in conference at Berlin, July 17–August 2, 1945. Part II of the Report on the Tripartite Conference of Berlin, issued as a communiqué on August 2, 1945, stated that the United States, British, and Soviet Governments had reached agreement for the establishment of a Council of Foreign Ministers. Part X of the Report stated that the three Governments had charged the Council with the task of preparing peace treaties for Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Finland; that the three Governments had agreed to examine the question of the establishment of diplomatic relations with Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Finland; and that the three Governments expressed the conviction that the Allied press would enjoy freedom to report developments in Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Finland. Part XII of the Report stated that the three Governments had agreed [Page 562] that revision of procedures of the Allied Control Commissions for Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary would be undertaken. For text of the Report on the Tripartite Conference of Berlin, see Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), volume II, pages 1499–1512. For text of the Protocol of the Proceedings of the Conference, see ibid., pages 1478–1498. For references to the minutes and other records of the proceedings of the Conference and other documentation leading to these agreements, see ibid., entries in index under “Rumania”, pages 1635–1636. For additional documentation for the months of June and July 1945 regarding the questions of the establishment of diplomatic relations with Rumania, the conclusion of a peace treaty, proposals to reorganize the Allied Control Commission for Rumania, and the Rumanian internal political and economic scene, see ibid., volume I, pages 357–434, passim, and volume II, pages 686–749, passim.]
- Not printed; it reported that the British Political Representative was suggesting to his Government that intimate friends of former King Carol might have arranged for Carol to secure a visa for entry into France without the full knowledge and consent of the French Government (871.001 Carol II/6–2245). King Carol was at this time in exile in Brazil.↩
- Telegram 2428, July 5, from Moscow, commented that there had been no indication in Moscow of any favorable sentiment toward ex-King Carol; Ambassador Harriman was inclined to doubt that the Soviet Government would vouch for or actively associate itself in support of any monarchical pretensions (871.001 Carol II/7–545).↩