File No. 600.001/12
The Ambassador in France (Sharp) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
Paris,
March 29, 1916
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[Received March 30, 8 a. m.]
[Received March 30, 8 a. m.]
1336. Conference of Allies held at Paris 27th and 28th, at which were present representatives from Belgium, England, France, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Russia, and Serbia, adopted following resolutions:
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- The representatives of the Allied Governments, at their meeting in Paris on March 27 and 28, 1916, affirm the complete community of views and solidarity of the Allies; they confirm all the steps taken to insure unity of action on the front as a unit. This is to be understood to mean the unity of military action, brought about by the understanding concluded between the staffs; the unity of economic action, the organization of which has been regulated by the present conference; and the unity of diplomatic action, guaranteed by their firm determination to carry on the struggle until the victory of the common cause.
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- The Allied Governments resolve to put their solidarity of views and interests into practice in the economic domain. They will instruct the economic conference, to be held shortly in Paris, to lay before them such measures as may be calculated to give effect to this solidarity.
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- With the object of strengthening, coordinating, and unifying economic action, to be exercised for the purpose of preventing supplies from reaching the enemy, the conference decides to constitute in Paris a permanent committee in which all Allies shall be represented.
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- The conference decides: to carry on the organization, begun in London, of an international central freight bureau; to proceed jointly as soon as possible [Page 973] to the investigation of such measures as may be practicable to bring about an equitable distribution, among the Allied nations, of the burdens arising out of maritime transports, and to check the rise in freights.
Sharp