Office of the Historian

892.61317/4–1646: Telegram

The Chargé in Siam (Yost) to the Secretary of State

confidential
immediate
Bangkok, April 16, 1946—noon.
[Received 2:31 p.m.]

400. ReDeptel’s 145, March 7 and 195 March 27.45 Tripartite agreement, Memorandum Understanding and accompanying notes presented yesterday to Foreign Minister by Thompson46 and self. Foreign Minister confident there would be no disagreement on substance of drafts and promised to give final reply very promptly.47 Thompson has not yet received from London final texts exchange of notes re revision Article 14, formal agreement, but expects them hourly.

Yost
  1. Neither printed.↩
  2. Geoffrey H. Thompson, British Minister in Siam.↩
  3. Telegram 425, April 23, 3 p.m., from Bangkok advised that the Siamese had proposed a number of minor amendments but only two of any substance. In telegram 312, the following day, the Department stated that it had no objections to these amendments. (892.61317/4–2346)↩