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871.001 Carol II/12–1045: Telegram

The American Representative in Rumania (Berry) to the Secretary of State

Bucharest, December 10, 1945—7 p.m.
[Received December 15—1:02 a.m.]

967. Re AmEmb Paris tel 6871 of November 29.40 I hope that the Department will do everything possible to support the British in their stand that Carol should not return to Europe as Carol on this side [Page 642] of the Atlantic will be an added threat to all democratic institutions in Rumania.41

This is 967, repeated Paris as 21 and London as 111.

Berry
  1. Not printed; it reported that King Carol held an unlimited diplomatic visa for France but had been definitely informed that a visit to France at the time would be inopportune (871.001 Carol II/11–2945).↩
  2. Telegram 1931, December 20, to Lisbon, repeated to Bucharest as 657, reported that the Department had received formal assurances that the French Government would not permit Carol to enter France or Monaco (871.001 Carol II/12–2045). Telegram 2401, December 27, from Lisbon, reported that the Portuguese Government would inform Carol that his Portuguese visa, which had been suspended but not canceled because of the full validity of Carol’s French visa, would not be recognized as valid until Carol could show proof that the French would permit him residence (871.001 Carol II/12–2745).↩