46

A\en  it,  as  we  are  informed,  the  Commission  of  Reparations  means  to  renounce ­
  the  right  of  intervention  which  it  has  under  the  above  article  still  Rouraania
  cannot  accept  to  give  up  a  right  which  is  of  the  greatest  importance  to
her,  as  it  is  a  question  of  economically  drawing  the  freed  territories  closer  to
their  former  oecupants.  Such  a  renouncement  would  have  as  a  consequence
the  dependence  of  all  the  railroads  in  the  freed  territories  of  the  companies  of
theii  former  enemies,  w  Inch  would  constitute  a  flagrant  contradiction  to  the
object  of  the  treaties.

II.  Hungary
I  ill  the  present  moment  Hungary  has  not  complied  with  the  terms  of  article ­
  194,  in  producing  the  list  of  property,  rights  and  interests  which  the  Hungarian ­
  dependents  had  in  the  undertakings  of  public  utility,  in  Ardeal  and  Bukovina.
  Roumania  insisted  and  still  insists,  on  the  showing  of  this  list,  in  order
to  be  enable  to  exercise  her  right.  The  Commission  of  Reparations  has  taken  no
decision  in  the  matter,  but  Roumania,  seeing  the  interest  she  has  in  nationalizing ­
  the  undertakings  of  public  utility  in  Ardeal,  can  not  give  up  her  right,  and
insists  on  the  Commission  of  reparations,  demanding  and  obtaining  from  Hungai
  \  the  list  of  properties,  rights  and  interests,  which  the  Hungarian  dependents ­
  have,  in  the  undertakings  of  public  utility  in  Ardeal  and  Bukovina.
If  the  former  hostile  States,  do  not  present  this  complete  list,  omitting  to
put  down  these  properties  rights  and  interests  of  theirs  in  the  freed  territories,
then  Roumania,  in  conformity  with  the  terms  of  the  treaties  may  take  it  for  granted, ­
  that  these  former  hostile  States,  have  renounced  in  favor  of  Roumania,  all
the  properties  rights  and  interests,  not  taken  down  in  the  lists  they  should
have  presented.

SECTION  IV
Property  relonging  to  institutions  and  foundations  of  the  treed  territories
EXISTING  AT  PRESENT  IN  OTHER  TERRITORIES  OF  THE  FORMER
Austro-Hungarian  Monarchy
Articles  266  and  265  of  the  Treaty  with  Austria,  and  articles  249  and
258  of  the  Treaty  with  Hungary,  impose  on  these  States  the  obligation  of  remitting ­
  all  properties  rights  and  interests,  belonging  to  institutions,  foundations ­
  and  collectivities  in  the  freed  territories.  This  formal  obligation  could
not  be  carried  out  up  to  now,  on  account  of  the  resistance  of  the  interested  States, ­
  practically  possessors  of  this  property  which  is  not  theirs.  The  negotiations
carried  on  in  Bucarest,  and  the  conferences  of  Vienna  and  of  Rome  in  1922
and  1924  have  given  no  practical  result  up  to  now.
The  matter  offers  great  interest  for  Roumania,  as  it  is  a  question  of  propel ­
  t)  belonging  to  Roumanian  foundations,  and  of  which  Roumanian  nationals ­
  should  profit,  or  cultural  and  philanthropical  institutions  of  public  interest