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...which amounts to confiscation of foreign property. The Rumanian Government later denied this in a note to the U. S., stating that confiscation and interference with the legitimate rights of American capital were not contemplated in the bill. The U. S. was not satisfied, however, and the Legation at Bukarest politely informed the Rumanian Government in a third note that the proposed law was prejudicial to American capital employed in Rumanian oil enterprises...
Should Germany fail to reach Bukarest and Galatz she will suffer her greatest set back in the war; perhaps a fatal set back. Should she, on the contrary, secure the economic and transportation facilities that are involved, her hand will be stronger than at any moment for a diplomatic move. With either Russia or Japan she may come to terms, and if with the latter then we should be face to face with our own hour of peril...
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