File No. 893.51/860.

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Minister.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

The Department sent the following telegram to the American group on April 26:

The Department believes that it would be a mistake for the groups to be too strict in the matter of control in connection with the preliminary advances, and that it is most important that funds required for immediate needs be advanced promptly in order that the Provisional Government may get started as soon as possible on a more stable basis. The groups of course should have proper security for these advances, the aggregate of which is comparatively small. But the full discussion of conditions of control for the large reorganization loan, while proceeding simultaneously, should not unduly delay the [Page 125] preliminary advances, with the understanding that the concessions with respect to these urgent advances shall in no wise prejudice the discussion of measures of control in connection with the large loan.

You will ascertain by consulting your colleagues whether a common understanding can not be reached promptly in the above sense.

Huntington Wilson.