Office of the Historian

811.20 Defense (M)/8533: Telegram

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

Washington, August 28, 1942—4 p.m.

4116. Your A–17, August 18, 12:50 p.m.21 Department understands from British Embassy that decision has been reached in London to postpone signing of tripartite Belgian agreement, but to make it retroactive to expiration date of present Anglo-Belgian agreement. Department considers this arrangement satisfactory.

Hull

[Negotiations on this subject continued through 1942 and 1943 without an agreement being reached and were then discontinued by mutual consent, problems of Congo supplies and purchases being taken care of by existing machinery. An Office of Economic Warfare mission went to the Congo in 1943 and an informal Tripartite Supply Committee was set up.]

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