871.00/8–2045: Telegram
The Acting American Representative in Rumania (Melbourne) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 20—4:25 p.m.]
567. At 5 p.m. the King summoned General Schuyler and myself and stated that after consultation with the four party leaders all but Communists had advised that Govt immediately be changed.39 The King had called Premier Groza and formally requested him to resign and Groza had refused. King then presented to General Schuyler one of three identical, original notes invoking assistance of the three Allied Govts in forming a more representative regime as provided in Crimea Declaration on Liberated Europe. Text of the note and scope of the audience will be reported by General Schuyler.
Repeated Moscow as 163.
- Telegram 561, August 18, from Bucharest, had alerted the Department as to the constitutional plan the King had decided to follow in requesting the resignation of the Groza government (871.00/8–1845).↩