462.00 R 294/236: Telegram
The Chargé in Great Britain (Wheeler) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 6—10 a.m.]
207. Your 131, June 2, 5 p.m.27 The Embassy on May 26 received a note which was sent by pouch May 29th, which stated as follows:
“His Majesty’s Government have decided to consent to the suppression of paragraph 2 of article 6 of that draft agreement.
“His Majesty’s Government are however anxious to place on record that they have only consented to sign the draft agreement thus modified because they interpret article 248 of the Treaty of Versailles, the scope of which they in nowise intend to restrict by signing the said agreement, as a safeguard in favor of the Allied and Associated Powers who have ratified the Treaty of Versailles, of the priority reparations and other charges arising out of the said treaty over the other engagements and obligations of Germany.”
- Not printed.↩