611.3131/206: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Venezuela (Gonzalez)
Washington, June 27, 1938—2
p.m.
38. Your 54, June 24, 11 a.m. For Daniels.
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- You are authorized to discuss immediately with the Venezuelan officials the commodities covered in paragraphs 1 to 6 of the Department’s 36, June 22 receding if necessary to their inclusion to the extent therein indicated, in this Government’s published list.
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- Please inform those officials that as soon as agreement is reached as to publication of the commodities referred to above, together with those authorized for presentation in the Department’s instruction of March 7, an early date can be fixed for publication of the second public notice. Please point out the importance of issuing this notice as soon as possible.
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- The Department believes, on the basis of your 54, that there is a good prospect of negotiations being concluded by early September if the second notice can be published within 10 days and the procedure [Page 982] indicated below is followed. Department therefore desires you to proceed with negotiations with a view to their earliest conclusion.
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- The Department believes that in order to expedite the negotiations, discussions on the general provisions and schedules should proceed concurrently. Even before the publication of the second public notice you should at once endeavor to reach ad referendum agreement on text of the general provisions, and immediately following that notice you may present tentative schedules 1 and 2 which the Department will send by air mail as soon as possible.
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- In view of the foregoing it is important that Venezuelan concurrence in the Department’s final position regarding the list for publication be obtained as rapidly as possible.
Welles