462.00 R 296/789: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Herrick)
492. Your 590, December 22, 1 p.m. and L–290, December 27, 10 a.m.11
Please show following to Logan and if he concurs deliver to Foreign Office in reply to note regarding meeting of Finance Ministers.
“I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency’s note of December 20, 1924, informing me that your Government has fixed the date of January 6, 1925, for the meeting of Finance Ministers which is to be held to settle among other things the question of the allocation of the payments received from Germany since January 1, 1923, and during the first years of the operation of the Dawes plan.
In this latter connection I have been instructed to state that it is the belief of my Government that it would be highly desirable from the point of view of stability and certainty if the decisions to be reached by the meeting in question regarding the allocation of the contemplated annuities should cover as many years as possible rather than be restricted in their application to the first years of the operation of the plan.
The date of January 6, 1925,12 is entirely agreeable to the Government of the United States and as you have already been advised my Government has taken appropriate steps to be represented at the meeting which has now been called for that date.”