Office of the Historian

882.51/1906

Memorandum by the Assistant Chief of the Division of Western European Affairs (Richardson)

[Washington,] November 12, 1926.

After consultation with Mr. Hackworth62 and Mr. Harrison, and upon the authorization of the latter, I telephoned to Mr. Cary stating that the Department considered the arbitration clause in the Loan Agreement a matter primarily affecting the Finance Corporation and the Liberian Government and that if the former was willing to accept the clause as amended the Department perceived no objection thereto. I added that, of course, this expression of the Department’s views could not be regarded as binding succeeding Administrations.

Dorsey Richardson
  1. G. H. Hackworth, Solicitor for the Department of State.↩