811.114 St. Pierre-Miquelon/429: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Bullitt)
475. Your No. 1105, November 13, 3 p.m. Treasury Department requests that French Government be asked to give favorable consideration to following suggestions:
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- That importation and exportation of all alcohol, French or foreign, be prohibited at St. Pierre-Miquelon, or, if this is impossible, that exportation be in conformity with decree of April 9, 1935, at present in effect.
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- That proposed decree be amended to apply to all alcohol now in warehouses at St. Pierre to guard against possibility that some of the stock might contain or develop alcohol of French manufacture.
Unless you perceive objection, you are requested to present these suggestions to French Government with the hope that they will receive favorable consideration.
It would also be appreciated if the oral assurances that measures will be taken to prevent operation of distillery at St. Pierre could be incorporated in decree.
Please inquire whether Belgian or other foreign alcohol shipped from a French port, either by immediate transshipment or through purchase by someone in France and subsequent exportation, would be regarded as French product and therefore eligible for unrestricted importation and exportation at St. Pierre.
Telegraph reply for Treasury.