Office of the Historian

838.51/4083: Telegram

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

Washington, October 15, 1940—7 p.m.

171. Your 180 and 181, October 12. Confirming the telephone conversation of October 14, with Mr. Collado, the Department perceives no objection to the granting by the Fiscal Representative of his accord to the budget. It is understood that the budget will not contain any item of anticipated proceeds from coffee financing. It is also understood that the budget will contain certain of the measures to augment revenues and to reduce expenditures mentioned in your 181.

Accordingly, the Department assumes that it will not be necessary to enter into the special agreement authorized in the last paragraph of the Department’s 166 of October 11.

Hull