821.796/226: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Colombia (Lane)
994. Embassy’s 1336, August 4. There is no disposition here to insist on any particular phrasing, but both the Department and Rubber Development wish to make sure that the Colombian Government’s understanding of Rubber Development’s obligations under the agreement is the same as Rubber Development’s. Department thinks it would be unwise to sign any agreement which might be interpreted differently by the two Governments. No one in the Department or in Rubber Development or Defense Supplies appears to know the extent of the understanding which you referred to as having been tacitly [Page 36] arrived at between Defense Supplies Corporation and the Colombian Minister of War. Please advise.
Term “Allen Rubber Development” was inserted at wrong place in transmission of telegram; message was intended to be for Mayer from Allen,76 Rubber Development. Article 8, subdivision (b) was the provision with respect to which change was suggested.
- Presumably Douglas Allen, President of the Rubber Development Corporation.↩