711.00 Statement July 16, 1937/267: Telegram

The Minister in Rumania (Harrison) to the Secretary of State

21. Included in the communiqué issued yesterday at the close of the conference of the Permanent Council of the Little Entente46 at Sinaia was the following statement of [in?] translation:

“The Permanent Council has been happy to note that by the official declarations which Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, made July 16th, the United States has made a new and valuable contribution to the cause of peace and of international cooperation.

The policy of the states of the Little Entente having always been inspired by the principles which the Government of the United States has just proclaimed in such a precious and sincere manner the Permanent Council welcomes all the more favorably the declarations of Mr. Hull which envisage the possibility of a new cooperation in the political as well as in the economic field between the European states and the great republic beyond the Atlantic.”

Full report by mail.47

Harrison
  1. Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia.
  2. Despatch No. 427, September 4; not printed.