Office of the Historian

851.4061 Motion Pictures/56: Telegram

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

Washington, May 7, 1929—6 p.m.

138. Your 189, May 2, 4 p.m. and 192, May 6, noon.30 For your guidance.

Representative of Hays organization informs Department as follows: (1) That American film interests are unalterably opposed to contingent plan and will fight present system in any form to the finish; (2) That while it is not desired to take the initiative in endorsing a tariff proposal, increased customs duties or taxes, even if relatively high, would be a solution acceptable to interests represented by the Hays organization.

Stimson
  1. Latter not printed.↩