561.35E1A/8–844: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 8—1:45 p.m.]
6334. The following message is from the Delegate to the Sugar Council.
Chairman of Sugar Council has called next meeting for August 15. The agenda is as follows:
- (1)
- Approval minutes of meeting on September 30, 1943 as amended to August 5.
- (2)
- Recommendation to be made to governments concerned regarding extension of the International Sugar Agreement after 31st August 1944.
Draft protocol for extension of Agreement for 1 year submitted by British Delegation for consideration at the meeting has been circulated in text identical with that transmitted with Department’s instruction No. 4317, July 1720 except for following:
(1) Article III(1) has following sentence added to its present text: “Discussion of any such revision should take the existing Agreement as the starting point”. (2) The word “purposes” becomes “purpose” and the word “agreements” becomes “agreement”.
Article V first paragraph now reads “The present protocol shall bear the date the 31st of August 1944 and shall remain open for signature until the 30th September 1944; provided however, that any [Page 1004] signature appended after the 31st August 1944 shall be deemed to have effect as from that date.”
Winant