Mr. RUNCIMAN (by Private Notice)asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can make any statement regarding the recent Treaty concluded between Roumania and the Central Powers?
§ Lord R. CECILIn view of the interruption of communications with Roumania, I have not, as yet, been able to obtain the original text of this Treaty and the maps upon which the territorial adjustments are based; but it is clear from the summary which has been published in the Press, and which is without doubt substantially accurate, that this Treaty subjects Roumania to the complete military, economic, and political domination of the Central Powers.
As my right hon. Friend stated in the House on the 11th March last, His Majesty's Government have deep sympathy with Roumania in the cruel position in which she has been placed, and it remains for her friends and former Allies to do their utmost at the eventual Peace Conference to obtain a revision of the harsh terms which have been imposed. The Allied Ministers at Jassy have, in fact, officially notified the Roumanian Government that their Governments cannot but consider as null and void the stipulations of a peace forced upon Roumania, in so much as they violate the rights and interests of the Allied Powers and the principles for which we are fighting. More specific protests and reserves have been formulated in regard to the abolition of an European Danube Commission which was instituted by International Treaty.
§ Mr. D. MASONWill the Noble Lord publish it in a White Paper when he is in a position to do so?
§ Lord R. CECILI will consider that.