793.003/951a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
Washington, October 19,
1942—6 p.m.
5147. Department’s 4819, October 3, 11 p.m. We propose to make the following minor drafting changes in the text of the draft treaty:
- 1.
- Article I, first sentence. Insert the word “hereby” before the word “abrogated”.
- 2.
- Article IV, first paragraph. Change “existing rights in respect of and titles” to the words “existing rights in respect of or as to existing titles”; delete the word “otherwise”; and after “such existing rights” and also after “such rights” insert the words “or titles”.
- 3.
- Article IV, second paragraph. Insert before “leases in perpetuity” the word “existing”. Change “gratuitously” to the words “without charges of any sort”; change “such leaseholders” to the words “the holders of such leases or other documentary evidence”.
- 4.
- Article IV, third paragraph. Change “as land transfer fees” to the words “of fees in connection with land transfers”.
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