Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1939, The American Republics, Volume V

740.00111 A.R./332a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Under Secretary of State (Welles)⁸²

[Extract]

Washington, September 21, 1939—7 p.m.

8. For the Under Secretary from Duggan.⁸³

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The trade agreements organization has approved the negotiation of a supplemental agreement with Cuba in order (1) to restore the duty of ninety cents per hundred pounds on Cuban sugar during the period of suspension of sugar quotas by Presidential proclamation; (2) to insure the continuance of the ninety cent duty if and when quotas are reestablished; (3) to restore to Cuba the tobacco concessions; and (4) to take care of a number of technical matters which the trade agreements organization considers of importance. Secretaries Hull and Wallace⁸⁴ have indicated their approval and Assistant Secretary Grady⁸⁵ hopes to clear the matter with the President tomorrow. It is then proposed to send a negotiator to Cuba in order to complete the agreement as rapidly as possible. It is hoped that the foregoing is satisfactory to you.

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[Duggan]
Hull

82. Then at Panama as American delegate to the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the American Republics; see pp. 15 ff.
83. Laurence Duggan, Chief of the Division of the American Republics.
84. Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture.
85. Henry F. Grady, Assistant Secretary of State.