Office of the Historian

560.AL/7–2446: Circular telegram

The Secretary of State to Certain Diplomatic Officers 80

confidential
Washington, July 24, 1946—8 a. m.

You wall shortly receive third person air mail instruction81 enclosing copies Draft Charter of International Trade Organization and explanatory covering memo. After clearance from Dept, which you will receive by telegraph, please hand copies Draft Charter to Fonoff together with statement along lines of covering memo.

Byrnes
  1. Cabled to the other governments named in the February ECOSOC resolution as members of the Preparatory Committee for the trade and employment conference.↩
  2. Fourteen of the instructions were sent out under date of July 25 (560.AL/7–2546). Four of the instructions, despatched to United States missions in the Western Pacific and South African areas, were sent out under date of July 26 (560.AL/7–2646). These documents necessarily were received by the different missions and so transmitted to the different governments at varying times. See footnote 85, p. 1342.↩