800.515/9–2944: Circular telegram
The Secretary of State to Certain Diplomatic Representatives 39
Re Flight of Axis Capital to Neutral Countries
British have decided to present to the European neutrals a note on Bretton Woods Resolution VI, more or less simultaneously with presentation by our missions of a similar note. British note will be substantially the same as American but not identical. Reference Department’s circular telegram, September 5, 1944, midnight,40 “Re Flight of Axis Capital to Neutral Countries”, and Department’s circular telegram of September 16, 1944, 4 a.m. [p.m.]
You are instructed to consult with your British colleague, and thereafter to present, on October 2, to the government to which you are accredited, the note set forth in the circular telegram which follows, dated September 29, 3 p.m., which note is slightly different in phraseology from note contained in Department’s circular telegram under reference.
This matter is also being discussed with the USSR, and it is hoped that the Russian mission, where there is any, will also present a similar statement.41
- The diplomatic representatives in Ireland, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey; repeated on the same date to the diplomatic representatives in the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.↩
- See footnote 26, p. 227.↩
- Ambassador Harriman informed the Department in telegram 3759, October 2, 4 p.m, that he had notified the Soviet Foreign Office by note on September 30 of the procedure to be followed by the British and United States Governments in presenting notes concerning Resolution VI to the European neutrals and again expressed the hope of the United States Government that the Soviet Government would find it possible to take similar action (800.515/10–244).↩