840.50/7–1544: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Winant )
5632. For Radius from Berle. It has been suggested that paragraph 5 of the draft directive be reworded to exclude the implication in the present language that the Interim Commission might have sole responsibility for the screening function that is now being exercised by the FEA7 with respect to requirements presented to the Combined Boards. The following substitute paragraph has been suggested as meeting this point and being more in accord with the statement of procedures contained in UNRRA Resolution 17, Section II, paragraph 2:8
“The Commission will present to the appropriate intergovernmental allocating agencies such recommendations as it may deem necessary to meet import requirements and, to obtain a fair distribution of, inland transport equipment and material in Continental Europe, so far as these relate to the period after the military have relinquished primary responsibility for inland transport. The Commission will be accorded by the agencies to which requirements for inland transport equipment and material are submitted by the national authorities in Continental Europe, the right to review and comment on such requirements.”
This telegram should be read with and considered as an addition to the Department’s 5567 of July 15. While additional amendments to the draft agreement or draft directive are still possible, none are presently anticipated and it is hoped that the final approval of the Department will be on the basis of the amendments proposed in these two telegrams. [Berle.]
- Foreign Economic Administration.↩
- For text of resolution No. 17, see Department of State Conference Series No. 53: First Session of the Council of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, Selected Documents, Atlantic City, New Jersey, November 10–December 1, 1943 (Washington, 1944), p. 50.↩