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The Chargé in Rumania (Wadsworth) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 16.]
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Department’s special written instruction No. 96 of February 5, 1935, authorizing the communication to the appropriate officials of the Rumanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Department’s views, as expressed therein, on the subject of the asserted right of the Rumanian military authorities to proceed to the search of an American citizen’s domicile without display of a warrant or order revealing the authority and the identity of the searchers.
Upon receipt of this instruction I again discussed the question with Mr. G. A. Ogilvie, the search of whose private residence on November 30, last, had raised the question at issue. Neither he nor I perceived any factor in the local situation rendering undesirable compliance with the instruction but, on the contrary, believed that a placing of the Department’s views on official record with the Rumanian Government might result in the protection of local American residents from future search similar to that to which he was submitted. A first-person note, dated today, was, therefore, prepared for delivery to the Foreign Ministry.
As instructed, a copy of the note in question is submitted herewith.28
Respectfully yours,
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