800.85/7–2744: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 27—2:48 p.m.]
5953. For Berle and Land, WSA, from Shipping Delegation. The question of a press release by the Shipping Conference has been raised and will probably be discussed tomorrow at a noon meeting.
We propose to present for the consideration of the Conference a brief statement along the following lines, unless the Department perceives some objection.33
Begin statement: In order to discuss continuing problems of mutual interest respecting the conduct of shipping during the later phases of the war, the governments of the United Kingdom and the United States have sponsored in London a conference of those United Nations most intimately concerned with shipping. Delegates of Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, and Poland have met to consider these shipping problems with delegates from the United Kingdom and the United States. They have reached agreement on general principles to govern their future actions in successfully prosecuting the common war effort and supplying the liberated areas, as well as the United Nations generally, and on machinery to implement those principles. End statement.
As Norway is not at war with Japan it has been considered advisable to have no reference in a public statement to the war in the Far East.
Arrangements will, of course, be made for simultaneous publication of any statement which may be agreed.
- The Secretary of State in his telegram 5905, July 27, 10 p.m., stated that the proposed press statement was agreeable to the War Shipping Administration and the Department (800.85/7–2744).↩