550.S1 Economic Commission/59: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chairman of the American Delegation (Hull)
166. Your 155, July 20, 3 p.m. Department understands that your draft resolution will be offered, as you have stated, as suggestions for discussion and with remarks reserving the right to amend in detail. It is a natural outgrowth of American principles and of your discussions at London and while it may in some respects break new ground it is not regarded as containing sensational innovations.
Reviewing your text, the Department queries phrase “subject only to such limited or temporary exceptions as may gain general assent (perhaps registered in a multilateral accord)”. Would this imply [Page 727] that we must submit our Cuban preference exception to future general assent?
President has seen your important telegrams on commercial policy and Department’s replies.