871.6363/201
The Minister in Rumania (Jay) to the
Secretary of State
[Extracts]
Bucharest, July 21,
1924.
[Received August 5.]
No. 634
Sir: I have the honor to refer to the
Department’s telegram No. 19 of July 3, 1924, 4 P.M., in regard to my
proceeding to Washington for consultation in connection with the
unsatisfactory attitude of the Rumanian Government. …
… The Minister for Foreign Affairs returned to Bucharest July 16th
following which we went to Sinaia on July 17th for a conference with the
King. A Council of Ministers was held the morning of July 18th and I was
received the same day at noon by Mr. Duca at the Foreign Office.
During this interview I presented a Note No. 73 dated July 10th, of which
a copy is herewith enclosed, wherein I stated that my Government had
instructed me to proceed to Washington for a consultation on the
unsatisfactory attitude of the Rumanian Government with respect to
American interests. In this note all the points made in the Department’s
telegrams Nos. 19 and 2222 are clearly set forth.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I have [etc.]
[For the Minister:]
Lawrence
Dennis
[Enclosure]
The American Minister (Jay) to the Rumanian Minister for Foreign Affairs
(Duca)
Bucharest, July 10,
1924.
No. 73
Mr. Minister: I have the honor to inform
Your Excellency that I have just received instructions from my
Government to proceed to the United States for the purpose of
consultation with the Department of State on the attitude of the
Rumanian Government towards American interests.
It is, at the same time, my duty to make known to Your Excellency the
considerations which have guided the Government of the United States
in arriving at the decision stated above. The recent passage of the
mining law, as I indicated to Your Excellency in a series of earnest
and renewed representations, has been a matter of grave concern to
my Government in view of the possibility which this law appears to
offer for a course of action on the part of the Rumanian
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Government which would
have a detrimental effect on American interests. Moreover, this law
is only the most recent of a succession of measures taken by the
Rumanian Government during the past two years which cannot fail to
give the impression that the Rumanian Government is not prepared to
accord to American interests the treatment which those interests may
reasonably expect from the Rumanian authorities. Thus, the
commercial indebtedness law; the failure of the Rumanian Government
to satisfy the just claims of its American creditors, such as the
Baldwin Company; the Consolidation Loan programme; the attitude
assumed by the Rumanian Debt Funding Commission sent to the United
States; are not thought by my Government to give evidence of a
desire on the part of the Rumanian Government to improve existing
relations with the United States.
In consideration, therefore, of these just grounds for
dissatisfaction, and with a view to adopting a course of action
which may be susceptible of effecting a change for the better in
this situation, also with the further object of bringing clearly to
the attention of the Rumanian Government the concern with which
recent developments have been viewed by the Government of the United
States, it has been decided to summon me to Washington.
My Government directs me to make plain, not only to the Royal
Government, but also to my Colleagues, that my journey to the United
States has been ordered for the purpose of consultation in
connection with the unsatisfactory attitude of the Rumanian
Government towards American nationals and their interests. It is
furthermore the purpose of the Government of the United States that
due publicity shall be given to the reasons for my return.
I avail myself [etc.]
