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sultations take place in Moscow between US and UK ambassadors
and appropriate rep of ISov Govt.
   We have informed Brit Emb here informally with request Emb
 ascertain FonOff views in matter. If Brit agree we would contem-
 plate transmitting notes immediately and publishing contents.53
   While we cannot assume responsibility advising King as to course
he should pursue, we have no objection your acquainting him our
thinking along foregoing lines if you consider desirable.
   Sent Bucharest; repeated Moscow and London.
                                                           Acmasow
871.00/11-2646
Report Prepared by Mr. Charles E. Hulick, Jr., on the Staff of the
               Representative in Rumania (Berry) 54

SECRET                              BUCHAREST, November 26, 1946.
Report No. 54
RUMANIA'S FIRST MASS TRIAL PROCLAIMS OPEN WAR To LIQUIDATE
                        HISTORICAL PARTIES
  During the week November 11-18, 1946, there was held in Bucharest
a Mass Trial according to the Soviet pattern established by Andrei
Vishinsky in famous Moscow Trials of 1936. This report is based
entirely on the notes of the Mission's Officer who was present as
observer throughout every minute of the trial. It is of immediate
actual importance in that the blunders made by the less experienced
Vishinskys of Rumania exposed in its entirety the real objective of the
trial and provided the Western Democracies with a window through
which they could obtain a clear glimpse of Soviet Russia's goal in
-the Balkans and the ruthlessness with which she intends to attain it.
More trials with the same purpose will follow. The press already
has announced the discovery of another alleged terrorist organiza-
tion, led by an Army General. Although the trial of this group and
others will follow the same pattern, the revealing mistakes made
during the trial under review will not likely be repeated.
  On the surface, the trial of ninety-one individuals for alleged sub-
versive activity was to be presented as a trial following the normal
established method of the civilized world to administer justice to

  ' Telegram 754, November 30, to Bucharest, repeated to Moscow and London,
stated that the Department had been informed that the British Foreign Office
did not favor the proposal set forth in this telegram on the grounds that
(1) it
would achieve no practical effect and (2) it would result in a probable Soviet
response which would only augment the impression of American-British
impotence (871.00/11-2246).
  5iReceived by the Division of Foreign Reporting Services of the Department
of State on December 11, 1946.



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