740.0011 European War 1939/17488: Telegram
The Chargé in Rumania (Benton) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 13—11:16 p.m.]
1040. The Secretary General of the Foreign Office has just summoned me and delivered a note verbale dated December 12, 1941, the translation of which is as follows:
“The Royal Rumanian Government has the honor to communicate to the Government of the United States of America that, in conformity with the dispositions of the Tripartite Pact and respecting the obligations of solidarity contained in this pact, as a result of the state of war which has arisen between the United States of America on the one hand, and the German Reich, Italy and Japan on the other, Rumania herself is in a state of war with the United States of America.”