763.72119/8310: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Wallace)
Washington, December
26, 1919, noon.
9424. For Rathbone from Davis. Treasury R–128.
Reference your R–140.17 See Department’s 9378 Dec. 19, 5 P.M.18
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- If the Reparation Commission should be formally organized upon the filing of ratifications by the Allies before the United States has taken definitive action on the Treaty you are authorized to endeavor, when proper time arrives, to arrange that Americans be asked to attend unofficially the meetings of the Reparation Commission, or to accept an invitation to do so if extended, at least pending final action on the Treaty by the United States.
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- You are also authorized, wherever it shall appear necessary to you to designate American representatives to sit on the various inter-allied sub-committees now acting under the organization committee of the Reparation Commission and which will continue to function under Reparation Commission after formal organization of the latter. It is understood that American representatives on these sub-committees will also sit in an unofficial capacity until final action is taken by the United States on the Treaty. Norman H. Davis, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
Lansing