The Archive · 1940

Allies Deny Oil Mission

Bucharest, Jan. 30.

Oficial British and French circles here yesterday denied the report that an Anglo-French mission to purchase Rumanian oil had arrived here.

There will be a meeting this week between the directors of several foreign oil companies, some of whom came in from the Rumanian oil fields, and M. Leon Wenger, purchasing agent and French Government representative in ai] matters, who has been at Bucharest for nearly two weeks. The British and French atfgibute the report to confusion with this conference—United Press.

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