862.85/1154: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Wallace) to the Secretary of State
Paris, May 15,
1920—6 p.m.
[Received 7:42 p.m.]
[Received 7:42 p.m.]
1161. B–87 for Davis.
- 1st.
- Your 919, Treasury B–31. Recognize difficulty pointed out by you between paragraphs 3 and 4 Wilson–Lloyd George Agreement, therefore think you are right in believing ships can be allocated under paragraph 3 without waiting for our ratification of agreement which removes most important difficulty I had in mind in my B–73.39 Some less concrete difficulties remain like one you suggest first sentence [Page 534] your paragraph one but provided other powers willing proceed themselves on lines Wilson–Lloyd George Agreement without knowing our position our delay not [an] obstruction and therefore not so embarrassing as I feared.
- 2d.
- Ratification Wilson–Lloyd George Agreement without ratification of treaty involved in my mind agreement on the part of Germany which I assumed Reparation Commission could easily obtain.
- 3d.
- In view of foregoing withdraw my insistence on immediate act of Congress provided you send prompt and favorable answer my tanker cables.38 Boyden.
Wallace