600.127/219
The Under Secretary of State (Fletcher) to Mr. Frederic N. Watriss
Dear Sir: I have your letter of July twenty-ninth,65 and in reference to it, and to your conversations with the Secretary and myself today, beg to be advised by you whether or not the American oil companies whom you represent would care to undertake direct negotiations with the authorities of the regime now functioning in Mexico, with a view to securing a satisfactory adjustment of the taxes referred to. In case you reply in the affirmative, appropriate instructions will be sent to Mr. Summerlin, and the Foreign Office will be informed that pending any representations that this Government may have to make on the subject, it would be pleased to have this effort at adjustment made.
Yours very truly,
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