811.0145/8–3145
The Second Secretary of the British Embassy (Cecil) to Mr. William Bishop, Assistant to the Legal Adviser (Hachworth)
Ref. 1852/13/45.
Dear Mr. Bishop: Mr. Dooman on leaving the State Department,73 has suggested that I take up with you the correspondence ending with his letter of 6th July to Mr. Wright of this Embassy on the subject of the two Decisions on off-shore fisheries and sea-bed resources respectively, which the United States Government intends to announce.
As regards the second of these Decisions, namely, the “Proposed Decision with respect to Natural Resources of the Sub-soil and Seabed of the Continental Shelf”, the Foreign Office has not hitherto offered any comment and we have now been asked to confirm that none will be forthcoming. At the same time His Majesty’s Government do not wish to be associated with this Decision and would prefer that, when it is announced, no reference should be made to prior consultation with His Majesty’s Government, either in the Decision itself or in any explanatory statement which may be issued.
Yours sincerely,
- Mr. Dooman retired on August 31.↩