438.00/365: Telegram
The High Commissioner in Haiti (Russell) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 22—10:14 a.m.]
8. Department’s number 3, January 18, 9 p.m. Referring to article 15, over two hundred French claims have already been submitted to the Claims Commission by claimants and not through the French Legation. A large number of these claims originating during revolutionary periods have been heard by the Claims Commission as at present constituted, and with the approval of the French Legation, decisions to be rendered upon the French member taking seat as such. I suggest French Legation officially present to Claims Commission the entire list of French claims before February 15th, sponsoring claims presented by individual claimants.
It is my opinion that the Department’s contemplated observations clear up the situation.