550.S1/993: Telegram

The Chairman of the American Delegation ( Hull ) to the Acting Secretary of State

42. For your information, press reports that American delegation has proposed 10 percent all around tariff cut. We have made no such proposal but have merely listed various topics59 on the economic agenda for discussion, which does not in the least constitute a statement of our position.

Hull
  1. Entitled: “Suggested Agenda for Economic Commission in the field of tariffs and commercial policy” (Conf. M. B./C. E. 4.).