871.51/564: Telegram
The Chargé in Rumania (Riggs) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:45 p.m.]
68. Have today received visit of delegate appointed by Roumanian Government from Bucharest Chamber of Commerce to negotiate settlement of pre-and post-war private Roumanian debts to American creditors. The acting commercial attaché of the Legation was present at the interview. Delegate proposes either that representatives of American creditors be appointed to negotiate direct with him or that this Legation be empowered to negotiate with him agreement for American creditors. He suggests taking British or Swiss agreement with Roumanian debtors as bases of discussion with American creditors. He states that according to Roumanian estimates pre-war debts aggregate about half a million dollars but that he had been unable to secure any trustworthy estimate of post-war debts. Please instruct.