800.51 W 89France/180

The French Ambassador ( Daeschner ) to the Secretary of State

[Translation41]

Mr. Secretary of State: I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that the mission charged with the duty of assisting Mr. Joseph Caillaux, Minister of Finance, in his forthcoming negotiations [Page 158] with the Secretary of the Treasury in Washington for the settlement of the debt of France to the United States, will consist of:

  • Mr. Henry Bérenger, Senator, General Reporter of the Finance Committee of the Senate;
  • Mr. Louis Dausset, Senator, Reporter of the Budget of Finances in the Senate;
  • Mr. Fernand Chapsal, Senator, formerly Director of the Ministry of Commerce;
  • Mr. Paul Dupuy, Senator;
  • Mr. Vincent Auriol, Deputy, formerly Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Chamber of Deputies;
  • Mr. Lucien Lamoureux, Deputy, Assistant General Reporter of the Finance Committee of the Chamber of Deputies;
  • Mr. Maurice Bokanowski, Deputy, Member of the Finance Committee of the Chamber of Deputies;
  • Mr. de Chambrun, Deputy;
  • Mr. Joseph Simon, formerly Inspector General of Finance, Vice President of the Société Générale;
  • Mr. Moreau-Néret, Assistant Director of the General Movement of Funds and Minister of Finance;
  • Mr. Haguenin, Inspector of Finances.

The Ambassador of France at Washington and Mr. Lacour-Gayet, Inspector of Finances, Financial Attaché of the Embassy of the Republic at Washington, will also form part of that mission.

The mission embarked at Havre on the 16th of this month on the ship Paris, which, barring accident, should arrive in New York on the evening of the 22d.42

Be pleased to accept [etc.]

E. Daeschner
  1. File translation revised.
  2. For the negotiations between the Caillaux mission and the World War Foreign Debt Commission, see Combined, Annual Reports of the World War Foreign Debt Commission, p. 44.