Office of the Historian

740.00112 European War (Blockade)/8–1544

Professor Paul Keller of the Swiss Delegation to Lord Selborne, British Minister of Economic Warfare, and Mr. W. W. Riefler of the American Embassy in the United Kingdom93

London, August 14, 1944.

Dear Lord Selborne and Mr. Riefler: With reference to our negotiations regarding the Anglo-American-Swiss Agreement of December 19th, 1943, I attach a Schedule92 of export ceilings for the second half of 1944 to replace Annex I of that Agreement.

It is agreed that clauses 7 and 8 of the Agreement of December 19th shall be modified as follows:

Clause 7. “The Swiss Government will control the grant of export licences so as to prevent an abnormal concentration upon any particular article of manufacture”.

Clause 8. (b) 1, Repair Trade. “For tariff items covered by Annex I, to one half of the value of these exports in 1942”.

I shall be glad if you will confirm that the above states correctly the outcome of our negotiations.

Yours sincerely,

P. Keller
  1. Copy transmitted to the Department in despatch 17486, August 15, from London: received August 22.↩
  2. Not printed.↩