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840.51 FC 51/11–1747

The Acting Secretary of State to the French Ambassador (Bonnet)
[Washington,] December 10, 1947.

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of November 17, 1947, containing the French Government’s proposal for mobilizing the assets in the United States owned by French nationals resident in France.

In its present form, the proposal raises certain difficult questions for my Government. However, I fully appreciate the urgency and merit of the underlying purpose of your Government’s proposal. I can also assure you that my Government is giving careful consideration to the basic problem for which your Government’s proposal seeks to provide a solution, and I will inform you promptly when a decision has been reached.1

Accept [etc.]

For the Acting Secretary of State:
Willard L. Thorp
  1. In a note of March 11, 1948, the Secretary of State informed Ambassador Bonnet that the United States Government had recently formulated a plan that should ultimately achieve the results he sought in his proposals (840.51 FC 51/11–1747).↩