838.51/1346: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Vice Consul in Charge of the Legation in Haiti (Longyear)
63. For General Russell.
Your August 19, 7 p.m.
You will inform Haitian Government that the Department has taken note of its note of August 19. It is gratified that the Haitian Government has given assurance that the Haitian member of the Claims Commission will be named within 8 days at the latest after the loan contract has been signed.
In view of the opinion of the Haitian Government that a new law is necessary to authorize the internal bond issue, the Department is prepared to proceed at once with the obtaining of bids for the external bond issue if the Haitian Government will give assurance that the law authorizing the new issue of internal bonds will be submitted to the Council of State on September 1. The Department still regards it as important that all details of the internal bond issue should be settled before the contract for the external bond issue is signed.