Office of the Historian

838.51/4061: Telegram

The Chargé in Haiti (Sparks) to the Secretary of State

Port-au-Prince, October 4, 1940—1 a.m.
[Received 3 p.m.]

167. With reference to my despatch No. 1029, September 28.39 The Fiscal Representative informed the Minister of Finance that 200,000 gourdes could be added to the estimate of revenues if the French commercial treaty40 were cancelled. The budget as finally drafted [Page 909] does not include this additional revenue. The Finance Minister declared to the Fiscal Representative that the Minister of Foreign Affairs tenaciously opposed, pending the outcome of his negotiations with the French Government which apparently are only for the purpose of suspending the treaty.

Sparks
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Commercial Convention, with Protocol, between France and Haiti, signed at Paris, June 24, 1938. For text, see Le Moniteur, July 11, 1938, p. 451, and August 8, 1938, p. 515.↩