611.4731/222: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul at Sydney (Doyle)
Your despatch No. 424, May 25. Between appropriate introductory and closing paragraphs you may say the following in an informal letter to Colonel White:
I have received from Washington information which enables me to say that I accurately represented the views of the Department of State when I told you that the United States could not envisage negotiating a trade agreement with Australia so long as Australia maintains its discriminations against American trade. These views are not based on any special prohibition expressed in the law, but upon the policy which has been developed under its operation.