462.00 R 29/255: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Wallace)

1219. B–63.

For Boyden from Davis. Reference your B–136, July 1st, Embassy’s 1343.

1.
Approve arrangement outlined your paragraphs 1, 2, and 3.
2.
Approve your recommendations regarding expense allowances for Smith and Madison. Understand total monthly expenses your organization, exclusive your own salary and expenses, will be $2500, and that Department in view your paragraph 7 will not be called upon to defray these until October 1st.
3.
Effective July 1st State Department instead of Treasury Department will pay your salary at same figure. If agreeable to you and in lieu of actual expenses incurred, Department will allow you $1,000 monthly for expenses, effective April 1st, 1920.
4.
Department has no objection to continuing arrangement outlined your paragraph 6.
Davis