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800.51 W 89France/281: Telegram

The Chargé in France (Whitehouse) to the Secretary of State

Paris, April 1, 1926—11 a.m.
[Received April 1—9:03 a.m.]

127. Your 81, March 31, 6 p.m. According to the Journal Officiel following is the statement of the Minister of Finance:

“As to interallied debts it goes without saying that we are not going to discuss them at this moment. The negotiations with the United States, with England, continue, in a spirit of friendliness on the part of these two countries, with a very great desire for conciliation on the side of France.

As for myself, [Gentlemen,] I shall do my utmost to have this thesis prevail, that French payments should be fixed equitably in proportion to those that she will receive from Germany.”2

Mailed to London, Rome, Brussels, and Berlin. Copy to European Information Center.

Whitehouse
  1. Journal Officiel de la République Française, Débats Parlementaires: Chambre des Députés, Séance du 30 Mars 1926 (Paris), p. 1628.↩