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SECTION  I
Restitutions
It  is  also  in  this  same  chapter  about  reparations  that  the  question  of  restitutions ­
  is  treated,  that  is  the  regaining  of  the  objects  carried  away  from  the
country  by  the  enemy,  and  which  can  be  identified  in  their  territory.  For  our
great  allies  the  recovery  was  much  easier,  by  the  fact  of  the  closeness  of  the
frontiers,  and  the  easiness  of  investigations,  so  that  we  can  almost  say  that
they  recovered  almost  the  whole  of  what  was  left  in  existence  of  their  earned
away  property.
But  for  Roumania  the  recovery  of  the  restitutions  was  rendered  harder
by  the  fact  that  during  the  first  few  days  that  followed  the  armistice,  and
when  the  investigations  would  have  been  easier,  she  had  not  the  right  of  naming ­
  delegates  of  her  own,  for  investigating  and  recovering,  and  she  was  therefore ­
  obliged,  to  appeal  to  the  assistance  of  the  allies,  delegates.  Later  on  when
national  restitution  services  were  created,  the  identification  operat'ons  had  become ­
  harder,  so  that  the  results  had  been  much  below  what  was  expected.
Our  great  allies  who  had  recovered  the  greater  part  of  their  property,
urged  the  other  States  to  conclude  lump  agreements  with  the  former  enemies
under  which  in  exchinge  for  global  sums  they  should  forego  all  ulterior  investigations ­
  for  identifyind  carried  away  property  This  attitude  was  justified
by  the  wish  of  saving  the  enemies  incurring  expenses  in  keeping  up  the  restitution ­
  services,  which  operated  on  their  territory.
In  these  conditions  Roumania  concluded  lump  agreements  giving  up  looking ­
  fur  property  which  might  be  identified  in  the  territories  of  Germany,
Austria  and  Hungary.
I.
Agreements  with  Germany.
Roumania  concluded  the  first  agreement  of  this  kind  with  Germany  in
July  1921,  by  which  Germany  agrees  to  give  Roumania:  one  hundred  stallions ­
  f  r  breeding,  2.900  mares,  2.000  big  horses,  and  besides  this  a  credit  of
20  million  marks  (paper)  for  buying  material  in  Germany.  This  first  agreement ­
  was  carried  out  completely;  the  credit  of  20  million  marks  paper,
was  made  use  of  by  the  War  Office  for  5  millions,  and  by  the
Minister  of  Communications  for  15  millions.
In  September  1922  the  second  lump  agreement  for  renouncing  the  right
to  the  cattle  and  the  tlnroughbred  horses  which  should  have  been  given  us
under  article  238  of  the  Treaty  of  Versailles  was  concluded.  On  the  basis  of
this  agreement,  ratified  in  November  1922,  Germany  opened  us  a  credit  of
4  TOTOO)  marks  gold  out  of  which  3.70  J.000  marks  gold  were  made  use  of
by  the  Roumanian  railroads  and  one  million  marks  gold  by  the  Ministry  of  Agriculture.

Negotiations  for  the  third  lump  agreements  were  in  course,  regarding  all
kinds  of  restitutions,  not  being  those  specified  in  Protocol  D.  under  the  name