561.35E1A/8–1544: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 16—2:20 a.m.]
6570. From Delegate to Sugar Council. Today’s meeting of Sugar Council adopted following resolution:
“The International Sugar Council recommends that the present International Sugar Agreement shall continue in force for the period of 1 year after 31 August 1944, in the terms of the following draft protocol submitted by the British Delegation.
(Here follows the text without change as reported in Embassy’s 6334, 8th.)
“The members of the Council agree to recommend to their respective Governments the signature of the protocol and to ask them to inform the Government of the United Kingdom (Foreign Office) urgently the name of their representative in London authorized to sign.” End of resolution.
Signature of the protocol will take place at Foreign Office August 31. Following countries are expected to sign: South Africa, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, United States of America, and Philippines, United Kingdom, USSR.
The adherence of India, Poland, and Yugoslavia is uncertain.
Proposal was made at meeting that draft protocol be amended to permit signature if they so desired of countries which had signed original Agreement but failed to adhere to extension currently in force. British representatives submitted Foreign Office draft of amendments necessary to effectuate this change. Your representative opposed this proposal inasmuch as it seemed open to possible interpretation on technical grounds that a new agreement would thereby be involved and might present difficulties from the standpoint of the United States Government. The Council decided not to amend the draft protocol in the sense proposed. [Steere.]