585.61B1/615: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 15—3:46 p.m.]
3671. Department’s 3014, 7th, and Embassy’s despatch 1043, July 28,40 regarding load lines. Informal note received from the Foreign Office reads in part as follows:
“We now understand from our shipping mission in New York that your regulations41 issued under the Presidential proclamation suspending the convention are in fact identical with ours and with the specific proposals we made to you. We are accordingly addressing the other signatory Governments immediately on the lines originally proposed and are inviting them to make declarations accordingly, though we naturally accept the United States Government’s action as it stands.
Our own regulations will be issued on August 15th.”
[In telegram No. 4444, August 8, 1942, the Ambassador in the United Kingdom reported the receipt of an informal note from the British Foreign Office calling attention to the expiration on August 31, 1942, of the modification of the International Load Line Convention announced in 1941, and stating that the United Kingdom proposed to continue the application of the declaration for the period of the national emergency (585.61B1/661).]