661.1115/30: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Great Britain ( Wright )
300. Our proposed warning to Americans regarding Rumanian valuables and gold obtained by the Bolsheviki illegally is apparently [Page 705] somewhat misunderstood. Our plan was to merely issue such a warning as a matter of information. As a practical measure the Department fails to see how it would be possible to trace the securities or gold. It did not have any such procedure in mind.
At the earliest moment possible please ask the Foreign Office whether they intend to make the return of Rumanian securities and gold illegally obtained a condition precedent to any dealings with the Russian cooperatives or whether they intend to take measures for the prevention of the use of such securities and gold. In the latter case, what measures do they have under consideration?