711.4215 Air Pollution/603: Telegram
The Minister in Canada (Robbins) to the Secretary of State
[Received 3:52 p.m.]
26. Department’s telegram No. 20, March 20, 6 p.m.; and my despatch No. 1161 of March 26th.27
Informally advised by Dr. Skelton that Prime Minister is prepared to sign Trail Smelter Convention. If, as result of efforts now being [Page 35] made, the officers of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company give undertaking that they will urge the Board of Directors to take formal action regarding payment of indemnity, the Prime Minister is prepared to sign without awaiting formal action by company directors.
Dr. Skelton stating [stated] that reply should be received tomorrow morning and if favorable the convention might possibly be ready for signature in the afternoon. I must leave for New York tomorrow afternoon to deliver address, but if impossible to sign convention before departure will return and sign Monday. I will telephone final decision to the Department tomorrow morning.
[For text of convention between the United States and Canada, signed April 15, 1935, see Department of State Treaty Series No. 893 or 49 Stat. 3245. The decision of the tribunal is printed in the Department of State Arbitration Series No. 8: Trail Smelter Arbitration Between the United States and Canada Under the Convention of April 15, 1935, Decision of the Tribunal Reported March 11, 1941 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1941).]
- Neither printed.↩