Foreign Relations of the United States, 1951, National Security Affairs; Foreign Economic Policy, Volume I

394.31/3–3151: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chairman of the United States Delegation to the Special Session of the Contracting Parties to GATT (Corse)

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Washington, March 31, 1951—5 p. m.

527. Re urtel 627 March 31.¹

1. Agree line ur para III.

2. Object to Melander proposal para Id as worst of various alternatives. Idea having two groups, one Paris and other Geneva, working on same basic issue, not calculated produce results.

3. Re ur para V. Prefer Brit proposal to no working party at all. Suggest you concentrate amendment efforts on objective having WP in Paris.

4. Above ITP views only.² Impossible obtain interagency views in time for useful comments.

Sent to USDel, Torquay.

Achesok

1. Supra.
2. That is, the views of the Office of International Trade Policy, Department of State, rather than the collective opinion of the several interested agencies of the government.