800.51 W 89 Great Britain/69
The British Ambassador (Geddes) to the Secretary of State
Sir: I had the honour to inform you on the 8th ultimo that it would be necessary for His Majesty’s Government to postpone, until after December 25th, the despatch to this country of the British delegation which is to proceed here to open negotiations with the Debt Funding Commission of the United States. I am now in receipt of information from my Government to the effect that the British mission will leave on the S. S. Majestic on the 27th instant, arriving at New York about the 2nd of January next.
The delegation will be composed as follows:
- The Right Honourable Stanley Baldwin, P.C., M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer,
- Mr. Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England,
- Mr. P. J. Grigg, Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
- Mr. E. Rowe-Dutton, of His Majesty’s Treasury,
- Mr. Loring Christie. Legal Adviser to the Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, Canada.
Mr. Baldwin will be accompanied by Mrs. Baldwin and Miss Baldwin, and Mr. Grigg will be accompanied by Mrs. Grigg.
I have [etc.]
[For further information regarding debt negotiations, see Combined Annual Reports of the World War Foreign Debt Commission, 1922–1926 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1927).]