462.00 R 294/521: Telegram

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

185. H–100 [from Hill2]. Agreement of September 21, 1925,3 Annex 2691, fixing costs of Armies of Occupation and Interallied Rhine-land High Commission and Commission of Control for second Dawes annuity provides that Allied Governments and the United States will decide before September 1st, 1926, arrangement for their costs in future. French now propose first meeting for this purpose on May 26th next. Request that Department will, as last year, authorize me to attend meetings on behalf of our Government. Will, of course, report to Department for instructions on proposals made in meetings. Hill.

Herrick
  1. Ralph Waldo Snowden Hill, American unofficial representative on the Reparation Commission.
  2. For text of agreement, see Foreign Relations, 1925, vol. ii, p. 163.