671.116/61: Telegram

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

5. Your 7, April 24, noon. As such a reply as you outline might be interpreted as tacit acceptance of the suspension of the exchange of notes of August 20, 1930 pending negotiation of a rider thereto, it is thought that your reply, if you consider one necessary before the Department has had an opportunity to study your written report, should be restricted to a mere acknowledgment of the note and the [Page 676] statement that it has been referred to your Government for consideration.

Pending the receipt of further instructions every effort should be made by the Legation to facilitate the issuance of import permits with reference to specific shipments that may come to the Legation’s attention because of delayed or prohibited entry.

For the Legation’s confidential information it is pointed out that as the negotiations under the Trade Agreement’s Act of June 12, 193414 are centering in Washington the Department may wish to have such negotiations as may develop with Rumania under point 5 of your telegram No. 6 of April 20, 6 p.m. conducted here.

Hull
  1. 48 Stat. 943.