462.00 R 29/412: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Wallace) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received December 14—1:12 a.m.]
2006. Following note dated December 11th just received from Foreign Office:
“I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that the Allied experts will be at Brussels on the 15th of this month where they will hold a meeting the following day with the German experts for the purpose of making a preliminary examination of the question of the reparations due by Germany under the treaty of Versailles.
The experts will forward a report to their respective Governments and the minutes of their meetings will be communicated to the Reparation Commission.
Inasmuch as the United States Government possesses an unofficial representative on the Reparation Commission, it will doubtless [Page 445] delegate an unofficial representative to Brussels who will remain in contact with the Allied experts during the conversations held between the latter. It would be particularly agreeable to the French Government if the American Government would take a decision in that sense. Signed G. Leygues”.
Boyden advised.