123 Edge, Walter E./180: Telegram
The Secretary of State of the Ambassador in France (Edge)
324. You are ordered to report to the Department at your early convenience to discuss Franco-American matters in general as suggested in the first paragraph of your 528, September 12, noon.59 The date of your departure from Paris is left to your discretion as well as is the nature of the statement concerning your forthcoming trip which you will probably wish to give to the press. However, prior to giving such a statement to the press, please telegraph me the text of your proposed statement so that I may make corresponding appropriate announcement here.
The Department is immediately preparing full powers for you to sign the commercial treaty in order that these powers may be promptly transmitted to the French Embassy here and to you by wire so soon as the Department shall have had an opportunity to study and approve the text of the agreement.
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