611.3131/115: Telegram
The Minister in Venezuela (Nicholson) to the Secretary of State
[Received 6:48 p.m.]
87. My despatch No. 743, June 15, 1937, and Department’s instruction No. 192, July 14, 1937.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs handed me today a note which translated reads in part as follows: “My Government agrees to the omission of the third paragraph of Article 6 from the alternative draft which I communicated to Your Excellency, thus recognizing reciprocally unconditional most-favored-nation treatment subject to the limitations established in Article 6 of the said alternative draft”.
The Foreign Minister expressed the belief that with this important basic principle agreed upon it should now be possible to make a preliminary public announcement concerning the trade agreement and to proceed with the negotiations.
I shall send a despatch transmitting the full text of the Foreign Minister’s note by air mail tomorrow.21
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