740.00119 EW/l–546
The Minister in Egypt (Tuck) to the Secretary of State
Cairo, January 5,
1946—8 p.m.
[Received January 6—12:40 p.m.]
[Received January 6—12:40 p.m.]
29. In accordance with instructions received in Dept’s secret telegram 2381 of December 29, 7 p.m.27 I made representation to the Foreign Office in the vein suggested by Paris Embassy’s telegram 33 of December 24, 5 p.m. (to Dept 7336).
Today Prime Minister28 informed me that the Egyptian Govt would sign the final act of the Paris Reparations Conference and that instructions to that effect had been sent to Egyptians in Paris.
Repeated to Paris as 1.
Tuck