740.00119 Control (Rumania)/3–1545: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the American Representative in Rumania (Berry)
164. Reurtel 190 March 15.39 The Department presumes that Maniu already knows the main points of our general attitude on Rumania as set forth in Deptel 90, February 24. In any future conversations which you or General Schuyler may have with him or with other political leaders you may say also that during the armistice period our policy is based upon the armistice agreement and upon the Crimea Declaration on Liberated Europe, and that we do not desire to intervene in Rumanian affairs except as may be necessary under the terms of those two agreements. Their attention may also be called to the Department’s public statement of March 1540 to the effect that we believe certain aspects of the political situation in Rumania at the present time require consultation among the three principal Allies.
We cannot, of course, undertake to answer all questions which Maniu has raised regarding our policy, but you may say that our present desire to see all significant political groups represented in an interim Rumanian Government, pending elections, is based on our [Page 526] belief that the Rumanian people should be given the opportunity to choose freely the form of Government they desire and not on any policy of supporting particular groups or of preventing the introduction of any particular political or social system.
American representatives cannot of course assume the responsibility of advising Maniu or other leaders on the decisions they themselves must make regarding their position as political leaders or the future of their party organizations.