838.51/4322
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Haiti (White)
Sir: Reference is made to your despatch no. 397 of September 15, 1941 transmitting a copy of a note dated September 1337 from the Haitian Foreign Minister requesting an extension of the moratorium on the sinking fund payments for Haiti’s dollar bonds.
An officer of the Department has been orally informed by the President of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council that it is expected that at the next meeting of the Executive Committee of the Council favorable action will be taken by that body regarding the Haitian Government’s request. A copy of a memorandum of a telephone conversation held on September 18 on this point is enclosed for your further information.38
You are requested to acknowledge the receipt of Minister Fombrun’s note of September 13, and to state that you are authorized, and authorization is hereby given you, to sign an Executive Agreement extending for one year the moratorium on the payment of amortization charges that was agreed to and signed at Port-au-Prince on September 27, 1940.39 However, you should make it clear to the appropriate officials of the Haitian Government that the new Agreement which you are authorized to sign is to supplement Article VI of the Haitian-American Executive Agreement of September 13, 1941, and that it should be stipulated that a token amortization payment of 100,000 gourdes will be made in the coming fiscal year.
Very truly yours,
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- Supplementary agreement modifying the agreement of August 7, 1933, regarding Haitian finances. For text, see Executive Agreement Series No. 183. or 54 Stat. (pt. 2) 2411. See also Foreign Relations, 1940, vol. v, pp. 923 ff.↩