611.6131/471: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union ( Henderson ) to the Secretary of State
202. 1. Soviet officials today agreed: (a) to abandon their demands with respect to the exceptions to the exportation clause; (b) to obligate themselves to purchase merchandise in the amount of $40,000,000 without any reservation with respect to adverse court action; and (c) to change the wording of their assurance with respect to exports of Soviet coal in such a way as to make it correspond closely to the Department’s intended press release. We have, therefore, come to a full agreement on all points at issue.
2. It has been tentatively agreed that all the notes are to be exchanged on August 4. Our note of inquiry, however, is to be dated August 2 and the Soviet reply thereto to be dated August 5. The other four notes are to be dated August 4. It has also been tentatively agreed that the proclamation is to be made on August 6.
3. These dates have been worked out in order to permit the Ambassador to sign the notes while in the Soviet Union between his visits to Helsinki and Stockholm. It is hoped that the Department will find them satisfactory since alterations may involve complications.
4. In order that connections may be made with the Ambassador, it is imperative that the telegrams containing the Department’s approval reach the Embassy by the morning of August 2.
The full text of the proposed notes is as follows:
[Here follow the drafts of notes which are the same as the final texts except for the minor changes contained in telegram No. 120, August 1, 8 p.m., page 437.]
- Telegram in three sections.↩