561.35E1A/8–2844: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Winant )
6906. To the Delegate to the Sugar Council. Full power, signed by President, authorizing Ambassador to sign protocol to prolong [Page 1006] Sugar Agreement of 1937 for United States being forwarded by air pouch. This communication may be accepted as authority of Ambassador to proceed to signature. The Ambassador will endorse on the document in conjunction with his signature: “signed subject to ratification”. Embassy will be advised as soon as Commonwealth of the Philippines authorizes signature on its behalf, probably tomorrow.
[For text of the Protocol signed August 31, 1944, see Department of State Treaty Series No. 990, or 59 Stat. (pt. 2) 951.]