871.6363/196: Telegram
The Minister in Rumania (Jay) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 26—3:46 a.m.]
52. Department’s telegram number 31, July 22, 6 p.m.23 Careful summary of translation of the memorandum follows:
[Here follows summary of memorandum from the Rumanian Foreign Office to Department of State printed on page 621.]
[Paraphrase.] The Department’s energetic attitude has evidently impressed the Rumanian Government, with the result that I was able to secure the signature of long-delayed extradition treaty24 as an evidence of good will. I have also just been informed by the [Page 620] representative of the Baldwin Locomotive Company that tomorrow the Rumanian Government is to make a payment of 10 percent of their total consignment with interest to July 1 aggregating about $300,000 and that a high official of the company’s workshops here has been requested by the Rumanian Government to enter into future arrangements. The company is going to accept and for the time being postpone the proposed lawsuit.
At last satisfaction has been promised in the Aladar Nagy case.25 See your instruction No. 224 of October 26, 1923.25a
As I reported in my despatch 622 of June 21 regarding schemes for treasury notes,26 Coale[?] expects to obtain a settlement by direct negotiations. …
I still feel that it would be mutually advantageous to have me make a short visit to Washington for a personal and confidential conference with the Department, in spite of the evidence given above that the Rumanian Government is anxious to meet our views.
When signing Extradition Treaty July 23 I told the Minister of Foreign Affairs that I had sent a telegram to the Department in the above sense. I added that I would be glad to present the case for Rumania also which had been so earnestly stated by him in his memorandum and enclosures. I also told him that in view of the conciliatory spirit shown by the Rumanian Government I had ventured to recommend to the Department that the publicity originally intended regarding my departure should not be given.
With reference to suggestion by the Rumanian Minister to the United States that my return to America be postponed for six weeks, the Finance Minister has gone to France, officially for the purpose of taking a cure; I learn from the British Minister, however, that he proposes to visit Great Britain, with the intention, it is generally believed, of making every effort to obtain a loan, even being prepared, it is said, to offer the State oil lands as a guarantee. For this reason the Rumanian Government may at this particular time be anxious to avoid possible reaction in financial circles which might arise from publicity regarding my return as originally intended and mentioned in the note which I sent to the Foreign Office. [End paraphrase.]
- Not printed.↩
- Post, p. 664.↩
- Property belonging to Aladar Nagy, a naturalized American citizen, had been sequestrated by the Rumanian Government on the charge that he was an enemy alien (file no. 371.1153N13).↩
- Not printed.↩
- Not printed; this despatch reported negotiations of Mr. Paul Stuppel on behalf of the Chase National Bank and Equitable Trust Company of New York, holders of bonds and notes of the Rumanian Government (file no. 871.51/544).↩