838.51/3804: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Haiti (Mayer)
64. Your 84, June 12, 9 a.m. and 88, June 16, 9 a.m.22 Mr. Francis White of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council informed the Department that the Council had discussed the Haitian note requesting a moratorium communicated to him by de la Rue and agreed that the Haitian request was reasonable. The Council expressed appreciation of the offer of the Haitian Government to devote any budgetary surplus as might result from the fiscal year 1939–1940 with the exception of such extraordinary appropriations as might be authorized by the Fiscal Representative, to the amortization of the 1922 Loan.
You are requested at your discretion to acknowledge the receipt of the note of June 12 from the Haitian Minister of Foreign Affairs and to state that you are authorized, and authorization is hereby given you, to sign a supplemental executive agreement extending the Accord [Page 649] of July 1, 1938 for one additional year from September 30, 1939. In your note of acknowledgment you should of course refer to the undertaking of the Haitian Government referred to in the last sentence of the paragraph next above.
- Neither printed.↩