Office of the Historian

711.428/1953: Telegram

The Minister in Canada (Armour) to the Secretary of State

Ottawa, May 14, 1936—11 a.m.
[Received May 14—12:50 p.m.]

62. Your telegram No. 41, May 8, 4 p.m. Canadian Government views with favor revisions recommended and is considering alterations suggested with probable formal alterations of its own.

While desiring to expedite signature, Government states that full power probably cannot be obtained in time for action prior to the adjournment of Congress and that “it is most likely that objections would be raised in Parliament to the Government taking action on these further proposals concerning fishing in the Pacific so long as the final steps to bring the Sockeye Salmon Agreement36 into force remain outstanding and I am not convinced that such a situation would be helpful in the general interest.” Despatch follows.37

Armour
  1. Signed May 26, 1930, Foreign Relations, 1930, vol. i, p. 505.↩
  2. No. 673, May 14, 1936; not printed.↩