Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1937, The American Republics, Volume V

638.5131/142: Telegram

The Minister in Haiti (Gordon) to the Secretary of State

Port-au-Prince, April 29, 1937—1 p.m.
[Received 3:15 p.m.]

14. My despatches 453 of March 24, and 465 of April 7.⁶¹ The Foreign Minister informed me today that exchange of notes⁶² effecting modus vivendi pending consummation of Franco-Haitian commercial treaty negotiations had just been signed. The modus vivendi gives Haiti a quota of approximately 37,000 sacks of coffee to be shipped from here between now and September 1; the French get straight minimum tariff treatment and there is no mention of an avenant or of specific tariff reductions for additional non-specialty articles.

Amplifying despatch by air mail.

Gordon

61. Neither printed.
62. Signed April 28, 1937; for text, see France, Journal Ofllciel, May 15, 1937, p. 5293.