Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1943, General, Volume I

548.G1/75a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Hamilton (Beck)

Washington, April 20, 1943—7 p.m.

83. Your 119, April 19, 6 p.m. Last paragraph of yours under reference: Department accepts your statement as a correct expression of its views and hereby confirms your statement. Department will take note of your telegram for future consideration. There is no doubt of the fact that the British Government agreed to the use of the Executive Committee of the Intergovernmental Committee and subsequently of the organization of the Intergovernmental Committee itself for the purposes under discussion and that at the time of Mr. Eden’s visit to Washington²⁸ this was expressly confirmed.

Hull

28. March 12–30, 1943; see vol. iii, pp. 1 ff.