Marian-Alin Dudoi

The Accommodation of the British Mission in Romania (1944)

Jan. 1, 2015

Keywords:
Al Doilea Război Mondial
Statele Unite
Diplomație
World War Two
the United States
the Soviet Union
Diplomacy
DOI:

10.55201/NOWB4495

Abstract

e Romanian Convention of Armistice, signed in Moscow on 12 – 13 September 1944, provided to the Soviet Union the right to represent all interests of the United Nations by ruling the Allied Control Commission on Romania, to which the United States and the United Kingdom represensatives were attached. British documents on micro‚ches, studied at the Romanian National Archives, provided a clear insight on the Romanian a$airs approached by the Big ree Powers in the autumn of 1944. One could easily notice the fact that not only did the Soviets interfere in Romanian a$airs from the beginning but they also a$ected the rights, mainly economic, in Romania of all other states of the United Nations, the Great Britain and the United States especially. After Churchill-Stalin’s “Percentages Agreement”, the Soviets, using false arguments, increased their purely unilateral activities, in disregard even of the 10% percent British, by removing British and American-owned oil concerns’ equipment although His Majesty’s Government and the United States Government made serious unsuccessful protests. e United Kingdom succeeded in having the O€ce of Political Representatives, through which the Foreign O€ce was made known about the political developments with Romanian Government and Romanian patriots’ help, who sincerely believed in the generous principles of the Atlantic Charter and the Declaration by the United Nations.