882.01 Foreign Control/442
The Under Secretary General of the League of Nations (Sugimura) to the American Representative on the International Committee on Liberia (Reber)98
Sir: As you are aware, no meeting of the Liberian Council Committee was held, as anticipated, during the November session of the Council. This decision was reached in view of the information received from the Finance Corporation of America to the effect that the Company considered it necessary to send a representative to Monrovia to obtain information on the spot before entering into a discussion of the financial aspects of any programme of assistance to Liberia.
The members of the Council Committee are naturally most anxious that this enquiry be terminated as quickly as possible and that the representative of the Finance Corporation of America be designated to carry on the financial negotiations which it is hoped will take place in Geneva. The Liberian delegate, before leaving Geneva, expressed the wish that these negotiations should be held here, as soon as possible and, in any case, not later than next spring. It would, therefore, be most helpful if you would keep the members of the Council Committee informed of all developments in this connection and of the intentions of the Finance Corporation.
The next meeting of the Committee will of course depend upon these developments. The President of the Council Committee would consider it particularly desirable if he were in a position during the January meeting of the Council to give some indication as to the future course of the Committee’s work, and for this purpose any information you may be able to supply by that time would be much appreciated.
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- Copy transmitted to the Department by the American representative as an enclosure to his despatch of December 7; received December 22.↩