860F.4061 Motion Pictures/133: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Czechoslovakia (Carr)
37. Legation’s 81, May 5, 4 p.m. The Department was informed by the Czechoslovak Minister that his Government would not be able to make a further reduction in the registration fee below the 17,500 crowns already offered. The Department does not deem the matter sufficiently important to have it further taken up with the Czechoslovak Government, and hence, if you are satisfied as to the present form of the proposed agreement, you should proceed to sign as soon as possible.
[Page 236]You should carefully compare the American and Czech texts of the exchanges so as to be certain that no changes will have to be made later in either texts. Please transmit to the Department by part air the originals of the signed Czech notes and certified copies of the originals of the signed American notes.
[For texts of notes exchanged May 18, 1938, see Department of State Executive Agreement Series No. 126, or 52 Stat. 1517.
There was correspondence from June to August 1938, regarding a proposed interpretation of one provision of the agreement and certain changes in the Czech text. This correspondence was terminated, however, without final agreement, presumably due to diversion of interest in the Czechoslovak Government to the increasingly critical relations with Germany.]