Office of the Historian

611b.9417/334: Telegram

The High Commissioner in the Philippine Islands (Sayre) to the Secretary of State

Manila, July 3, 1940—6 p.m.
[Received July 3—2:43 p.m.]

428. Reference your 100 [136] following received from secretary to President Quezon:50 [Page 994]

“The Commonwealth Government will have no objection to the extension for 1 year only, as suggested by the State Department, beginning August 1, 1940, of the Japanese cotton textile agreement. The Commonwealth Government, however, reserves the right to modify its tariff on textiles as circumstances may require.”

I agree that in view of world situation it would be desirable to extend existing arrangement 1 year.

Sayre

[On July 8 the Counselor of the Japanese Embassy and the Chief of the Office of Philippine Affairs consulted in regard to a further exchange of memoranda.]

  1. Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippine Commonwealth.↩