File No. 763.72/7967
The Special Representative ( House) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 5, 1917, 10.40 a.m.]
2850. The following resolutions of the Inter-Allied Conference will appear in the French press on Wednesday morning:
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The Allies declare that they will give priority to all supplies intended for the provisioning of the Belgians and the population of the French invaded territory on the basis of the programme of the Committee for the Provisioning of Belgium as it was drawn up in the course of conference held at London between the Committee for the Provisioning of Belgium and the British Government. They guarantee the tonnage necessary for the execution of this programme, taking into consideration such ships as the Committee for the Provisioning of Belgium at present disposes of and those which it may procure in the future either directly or by the aid of the Allied Governments.
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- Printed in full in Foreign Relations, 1917, Supplement 2, vol. II, p. 995.↩