840.50/2242: Airgram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Guatemala (Long)
A–522. Your A–336, June 29, 5 p.m.76 Please transmit to the Minister for Foreign Affairs a note substantially as follows:
“I have the honor to inform your Excellency that I duly transmitted to my Government the text of your Excellency’s note of June 25, with regard to the draft agreement for the setting up of a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. I am now directed to inform your Excellency that the Government of the United States is gratified to learn that the Government of Guatemala has given such interested attention to the proposed agreement and that it has no objection to accepting the provisions of the draft agreement in principle.
The Government of the United States has taken note of the understanding of the Government of Guatemala that the participation of Guatemala in the establishment of the proposed organization would entail contributions by that Government only within the limits of the resources available to it after meeting the pressing and urgent requirements which in its judgment would be required for the national economic rehabilitation and the relief of its inhabitants who lack the proper elements of economic existence. There would appear to be no inconsistency between this understanding and the interpretation which this Government places upon the pledge proposed in Article V, paragraph 1. Under the terms of this provision each member government would pledge ‘its full support to the Administration’, within the limits of the resources which it would be in a position to make available for this proposal, and the power to determine the character and extent of the specific contributions to be made would rest with the member government itself.”
- Not printed; the substance of the Guatemalan note of June 25 transmitted in that telegram is adequately given below.↩