561.35E1A/7–2944
Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, by Mrs. Jean Mulliken, of the Commodities Division
Mr. Jopson telephoned to state that the Dutch Government has requested that the protocol renewing the International Sugar Agreement make it quite clear that future discussions of a possible post-war [Page 1002] agreement are to start from the situation existing prior to the war rather than from the situation at the end of the war. The British Government was ready to include a statement to this effect in the protocol of renewal, and Mr. Jopson asked whether the Department could give clearance by telephone on the changes made in the protocol in order that he might advise the Foreign Office without delay.
Since the Department had previously authorized its delegate to the Sugar Council to give comparable assurances to the Dutch delegate in its telegram 5790 to London on July 24, 1944, 1 informed Mr. Jopson that the Department would have no objection to the insertion of a provision to this effect in the protocol.
The amendment to Article 5 suggested in Mr. Jopson’s letter, attached,19 appears to be primarily a matter for decision by the depository government, and I stated that I thought the Department would agree readily to the proposed provision.
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