Office of the Historian

840.70/12–1144: Telegram

The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State

London, December 11, 1944—6 p.m.
[Received December 11—4:15 p.m.]

10971. From EITO Delegation. ReDepts 10315, December 9.22 Text of revised Article VII, section 2, is contained in immediately following telegram. We believe that point in Department’s 9693 of November 17 and 9813 of November 2123 is covered by insertion of words “of which they have notice.”

Copy of complete text of EITO agreement as submitted by drafting committee after its meeting of December 8 was forwarded to Department in despatch No. 19765.24 Slight alterations in drafting committee text were made at informal meeting with Continental Delegations on December 9 and were indicated on copy forwarded to Department. A few other drafting points were referred back to drafting committee.

Text of annex concerning waterway craft was contained in Embassy’s 10927 of December 9. Our comments on annex will be forwarded separately. [EITO Delegation.]

Winant
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Telegram 9813 not printed.↩
  3. Despatch 19765, December 9, not printed; for text of agreement (EIT/26) transmitted in a later despatch, see p. 903.↩