462.00 R 294/522: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Herrick)
132. H-50 for Hill. Your H–100, May 12, 8 P.M. You are authorized to attend meetings on behalf this Government and report developments for Department’s consideration. You will of course not make commitments except under specific instructions from Department.
In this connection note from British Ambassador received 17th instant4 states in substance as follows:
“The British Government has lately had under consideration steps to be taken to arrange for reappointment of committee which negotiated [Page 157] the agreement signed by the Allied Governments and the United States at Paris on September 21, 1925, to regulate the amounts to be allocated from the second Dawes annuities for armies of occupation, Rhineland High Commission and Military Mission of Control. Under terms of this agreement amount to be allocated in future to armies of occupation and Rhineland High Commission were to be discussed within the two months following evacuation of the Cologne zone, and such discussion, which has not yet taken place, should be initiated without further delay.
The British Government considers that same procedure should be followed respecting constitution committee and negotiation agreement as took place in September, 1925, and that committee so constituted should meet in Paris in order to; first, agree upon the amounts to be allocated as from April 1st last to the armies of occupation and Rhineland High Commission; second, consider whether, in view of diminution in work of Military Commission of Control since September 21, 1925, any reduction can now be effected in the allocation then decided upon; third, the committee should be empowered to consider and settle any other outstanding questions in relation to the distribution of the Dawes annuities, such as that raised by the recent arbitral decision to the effect that the Dawes annuities comprise the transfers to be made by Germany to France and Poland in respect of social insurance funds relating to Alsace-Lorraine and Upper Silesia, respectively, and in respect of pensions earned in Alsace-Lorraine on November 11, 1918. For this purpose a Polish representative would be added to the committee when discussing charges affecting Poland.”
Please cable your comments regarding above and in respect to reply which should be made to British Ambassador.
- Dated May 13.↩