Office of the Historian

550.S1 Monetary Commission/58

The Acting Secretary of State to the Chief of the Treaty Division (Barnes)

[Washington,] January 17, 1934.

Mr. Barnes: I took this matter up with the President yesterday and asked him to initial his O. K., if he approved, opposite the second paragraph of Senator Pittman’s letter. Inadvertently he initialed at the top of the letter,16 but you may take his O. K. as indicating that the proclamation constitutes ratification.

William Phillips
  1. The notation was as follows: “This is O. K. FDR Jan 16” (550. S1 Monetary Commission/57).↩