462.00 R 294/42: Telegram
The Observer on the Rhineland High Commission (Allen) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 2—9:55 a.m.]
Your July 30, 8 p.m. Proposed payment of expenses American representative is result of negotiations based on article 9 armistice agreement. Action approved and recommended by High Commission. Other Governments making same arrangement through Reparation Commission. Impossible for United States to act through Reparation Commission. Expenses already paid by United States will be refunded in cash. They can be utilized for War Department expenses. Funds can [not] be deposited without our authority disbursing. Strongly recommend this procedure as payment through Swiss would cause delay. All payments made under above by Germans will be in dollars.