881.00/8–2945: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Caffery)
4111. For Villard. Embtel 5222 Aug 29, 9 p.m. You are authorized to sign final act and the second annexed declaration. You are authorized to sign the first annexed declaration provided you can do so in such a manner as to make it clear that you are merely taking note of the Soviet point of view.
While as stated above, we are willing to have you sign the first annexed declaration in the form indicated we note that a similar procedure has apparently not been envisaged for the Soviet delegation with respect to the second annexed declaration.
Please send certified copies of final act and agreement by fastest possible means in order that they may be available in the Department at the time of the publication of the statement for the press. We urgently request that this press statement, the text of which has not been received, be not released on Sept 4 but at a given hour on Sept 7 by which time we assume we shall have received from you all pertinent documents. We assume that the final act and agreement will be made available to the public at the time of the release of the press statement.
Sent Paris as 4111; rptd London 7464; Moscow 1933; Madrid 1484; Tangier 207.