740.00119 Council/9–1645: Telegram
The Acting American Representative in Rumania (Hulick) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 16—11:30 a.m.]
688. From General Schuyler. There follow additional comments contained in letter dated September 13 upon subject matter Department’s telegram 485, September 8, 5 p.m.11 and Mission telegram 633 [663], September 10, 1 p.m.
“In paragraph 3b of my outline, I referred to the difficulty experienced in securing clearance for newspaper correspondents to enter Rumania and stated that of the 14 names of correspondents submitted to the ACC (Allied Control Commission) for clearance, only one had as yet been cleared. I think it only just to point out to you that shortly after the preparation of this outline, a number of additional correspondents were cleared. At the present time, 11 of the 14 names officially submitted have received clearance.
“In paragraph 5c I mentioned that we had protested to the ACC the appointment of Rumanian administrators for 2 commercial firms in which majority stock interests are American, and stated further that thus far these protests had elicited no reply. I now wish to add that a reply was received this morning from the Deputy Chairman, ACC. The reply calls for further proof of American ownership of these firms and demands data to permit of a full investigation of their trade liabilities. Thus while no positive action has been taken on our protests as yet, it is now apparent that the matter is under consideration.
“Again, under paragraph 5e of my outline, I quoted as an example of unnecessary obstacles to our administrative activities the fact that a regularly scheduled plane flight from Italy, cancelled on account of weather, had to be cleared all over again, involving a delay of at least 5 days. I should now like to point out that this matter has been taken up officially with General Vinogradov and he has promised to take immediate steps so that in the future any properly cleared airplane flights which cannot take place due to bad weather may be automatically arranged for the following day. It is of course entirely possible that when Vinogradov considers further all the details of this [Page 620] new arrangement, it may turn out to be impracticable of application. We have not as yet had an example of its operation, and judging from past experiences, we may well expect further difficulties.”
This is 688 from Hulick, repeated to London for Berry12 as 38. [Schuyler.]