550.S1/765: Telegram
The Change in Great Britain (Atherton) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 12—5 p.m.]
121. From Norman Davis. Tariff truce in form described my 112, May 9, 3 p.m., approved this afternoon by Governments represented on Organizing Committee, namely: Germany, Belgium, United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan and Norway. Reference to annotated agenda removed from text and added as footnote. Japanese [Page 602] and Italian Ambassadors approved ad referendum, former for constitutional reasons, latter because he had not received final word from his Government which he felt confident would be forthcoming shortly as they had approved in principle. French and Germans introduced certain explanations and qualifications which will be included in the procès-verbal12 and reported fully in a later cable tonight.13 [Davis.]
- See League of Nations, Council Committee for the Organisation of the Monetary and Economic Conference, Minutes of the Meeting held at the Foreign Office, London, May 12th, 1933, at 3.0 p.m. (C.O.C./Conf.ME/P.V.7.(l), Annex to C.328.1933.II.), transmitted to the Department by the Consul at Geneva as an enclosure to his despatch No. 609 Political, May 30 (550.S1/918).↩
- Telegram No. 122, May 12, 11 p.m., from the Chargé in Great Britain, below.↩