Office of the Historian

800.515/9–1644: Circular telegram

The Secretary of State to Certain Diplomatic Representatives 32

Washington, September 16, 1944—4 p.m.

Re Flight of Axis Capital to Neutral Countries

In view of discussions now going forward with British on possibility of presenting a joint note on Bretton Woods Resolution VI, please do not present note described in Department’s circular telegram of September 5, 1944,33 until you receive further instructions from Department.

Hull
  1. The diplomatic representatives in Ireland, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey. Paraphrased texts were transmitted to Switzerland in telegram 3216, September 16, midnight, and to the Soviet Union in telegram 2230, September 18, 7 p.m. (neither printed).↩
  2. See Department’s telegram 7189, September 5, to London, p. 226, and footnote 26, p. 227.↩