838.51/2664
The Minister in Haiti (Armour) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received June 29.]
Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith the text, together with translation thereof, of a suggested agreement covering financial control after 1936 which M. Blanchet, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, handed to me yesterday.60
On Friday, June 23, M. Blanchet requested me to come to the Foreign Office, at which time he read me the enclosed text and asked me whether I thought it would be acceptable to my Government. I pointed out certain obvious objections, notably the omission of the paragraph requiring the accord of the fiscal representative in determining the budget. M. Blanchet, however, asked me to examine the copy at greater length, intimating that he would be willing to consider any suggestions we might have to offer. He admitted that the draft had been hastily prepared by the President and himself following his talk with me last Wednesday, June 21, but assured me that it was the desire of his Government to do everything possible to come to an agreement with us.
I shall forward to the Department by the next air mail an analysis of this latest proposal.60 In the meantime, I am sending a copy of the text to the Financial Adviser-General Receiver for his confidential information with the request that he examine it and let me have the benefit of his views, which I hope to have in time to enclose with my own.
Respectfully yours,