462.00R29/136: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Wallace)
748. For Boyden from Davis. Treasury B-4.
[Page 281]Reference your B-7, April 5, Embassy’s 904. If the understandings expressed your paragraph 2 are clearly understood by Commission as being our interpretation of the proposed plan outlined in paragraph 2 [of] Rathbone’s 46429 defining the conditions under which relief advances will be made to Austria, it is on such conditions acceptable to us, with the definite understanding that our adherence to proposed arrangement is based on recognition of exceptionally serious predicament of Austria and is in no way a precedent affecting our position respecting Germany.