The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-11-04
REPLY TO PARIS
NOTE IS EVADED
BY RUMANIANS
Allies Demand Bucharest
Give Reasons for Defiance
of Council.
INTRIGUE RAISES HEAD
Americans Declare Bessarabian
Plebiscite Recently Held
Was a Farce.
RAISES HEAD
By LAURENCE HILLS.

Coprrtohf. 1913. al rf1hb reserved.
PARIS, Nov. S.-The Rumanian issue
continues to hang fire here, involving
the whole Balkan situation, which the
Americans are pressing to clear up be-
fore they return home. Intrigue con-
tinues to show its head, to the great
encouragement of the Americans.
An amazing instance of what has
been going on in connection with the
Rumanian situation developed to-day
when the Rumanians frankly informed
the council they hadn't answered the
Joint note the council sent to them on
October II because the italian Minis
ter to Bucharest hadn't delivered his
copy. They claimed that because Of
his action the Rumanian Government
did not understand that all the great
Powers concurred in the note.
This note was drawn up following
called upon the Rumanians to evacu-
ate Budapest, notified Rumania that
her Hungarian acquisitions would be
deducted from her total claims, and
finally refused to make any changes in
the Rumanian boundaries accorded her
by the Peace Conference.
Copies were to be delivered by Ave
representatives OF the Powers at Bucha-
ell here expressed surprise that the Itsl-
ian Minister there hadn't delivered the
note.
Council Must Wait.
The council sent a telegram to-day
requesting the Rumanian Government
to answer the note of October II forth
with. and now must wait a few more
days.
The telegram stated that 'the Supreme
Council expresses the formal desire to
obtain within the shortest time brief
and clear reply from the Rumanian Gov
ernment on all the points discussed. AS
the situation in Hungary demands an
early decision in order to insure the
reestablishment OF normal conditions,
which is absolutely essential for the Sc
curity of central Europe, the principal
allied and associated Powers cannot al
low Rumania to prolong dilatory nego-
tiations on the three questions stated in
the note sent in October"
Thus the game continues, with Italy's
delinquency more than suspicious and
reviving reports of a secret Italian-Ru-
manian agreement The report on the
Hungarian situation from Clerk. who
is still In Budapest, presented at to-
days meeting. was not OF a nature to
give encouragement as to the clearing
up of this muddle. The Clerk report
as the two outstanding dan
gers in Hungary, arst, the return of
manifested at present In the
confusion OF parties and the activity
OF revolutionary agitators, and second,
the violent outburst OF anti-Semitlm,
already resulting in bloody pogroms.
Socialists Strongest.
According to this report, there IL
little chance of organizing a Govern
ment to receive the treaty. which was
Clerks special task. unless, as he points
out. the Allies extend some measure OF
support to the Socialists. which appar-
emily is the only rational element of
any consequence.
Rumania has authorized a denial TO
the council that 1t had announced the
Of Bessarabia up to the pres
ent moment but considered It as a fait
accompli. inasmuch as Bessarabia had
voted for attachment to Rumania.
1t Is pointed out that the French yIr-
tualiy supervised this election, as they
were in charge. also that the Bessara-
olans are now holding elections for the
Chamber, The Ruman nian stata-
ment descr bes the union of Rumania
and Bessarahia as "a consecrated union
which nobody ir the future can prevent"
According 20 Americans, the plebiscite
referred to was farce engineered by
the Rumanians.
Against the kind Of diplomacy prac-
tised by some OF the European nations
in the Balkans American diplomacy, pre-
dicted on far different lines, apparently
makes little headway.