641.5531/22: Telegram

The Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Winant ) to the Secretary of State

3092. Department’s 1094 March 16. Embassy’s 1362 and 1396 of March 21 and 24 respectively.

(1)
Foreign Office has today informed Embassy that renewal of Anglo-Belgian agreement to September 1, 1942, with respect to finance and purchase of commodities from Belgian Congo, will be signed tomorrow.11
(2)
Embassy’s 2798, May 20. As no reply has been received to this telegram Foreign Office is omitting reference to United States Government in section 2. Otherwise this letter will be handed to Belgian authorities tomorrow unaltered.
Winant
  1. Signed June 4, 1942; for text, see British Cmd. 6365, Treaty Series No. 1 (1942): Agreement … renewing the arrangements for the Regulation of Purchases of Commodities from the Belgian Congo and Ruanda Urundi.