462.00 R 296/737: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Herrick)

433. Department informed by Amembassy London that note has been received from British Foreign Office stating that it has been found necessary to postpone the meeting of Finance Ministers to a later date than December 1st and that the date of January 6th is suggested as the definite date for the meeting. In this note the hope was expressed that this date would be convenient to the Government of the United States.

Department is telegraphing the London Embassy to inform the British Foreign Office that the proposed date is acceptable to the United States, provided it meets with the convenience of the other Governments concerned.

You should inform the Foreign Office of the Government to which you are accredited of the foregoing.

Repeat to Rome as Department’s 145 and to Brussels as Department’s 72 and give copy to Logan.

Hughes