550.S1/776: Telegram
The Chargé in France (Marriner) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 16—2:30 p.m.]
222. From Norman Davis. In conference yesterday with Paul-Boncour and today with Bonnet, Minister of Finance, it was agreed that point 3 of the French reserve in connection with the tariff truce quoted in my 122, May 12, 11 p.m., should be replaced or limited by a statement as to the specific measures which France had in mind as indicated my 126, May 13, 1 p.m. I feel that in this way the danger which lay in the vague generalities of the French reserve will be largely cleared up and the reserve as so modified will not be as objectionable in opening the door to similar reserves by other powers to whom the truce and procès-verbal will be communicated.
I have telephoned this information to Atherton and requested him to keep in touch with the Foreign Office and Rueff, the French Financial Attaché, to whom the instructions are to be sent with the view to seeing that the French reserve is in acceptable form.
Repeated to London. [Davis.]