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Volume #12 - 1068. | |
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CHAPTER XI RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES | |
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PART
5 TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS | |
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SECTION
D PELAGIC SEALING | |
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DEA/387-40 |
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Chargé d'Affaires in United States to Secretary of State for External Affairs | |
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DESPATCH 2029 SECRET |
Washington,
October 21st, 1946 |
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Sir, I have the honour to refer to your despatch No. 1220 of October 15tht in which you ask for some indication of the date when the State Department expects to submit to Canada and the U.S.S.R. their draft of a new Pelagic Sealing Convention. 2. On taking this matter up informally with the State Department today I have been told that they have not been able to make much progress to date in the preparation of their draft. Resulting from the discussions held in Ottawa in September, 1945, the subject under reference was reviewed in Washington among the several Federal Government agencies concerned and subsequently a cable was sent to the United States Mission in Moscow asking for further views. The reply received apparently was rather cryptic and did not contain very much information. The State Department also asked their Mission in Tokyo to look into the Japanese Government files with the object of finding out what biological data the Japanese had in support of their demand for the abrogation of the 1911 agreement on the grounds that the navigation route employed in fur sealing was damaging the Japanese salmon fishing industry. A report has been received on this subject from Tokyo but there has not been time to digest the information furnished and the opinion was expressed that the American draft will probably not be ready for discussion in any formal sense much before the middle of 1947. Meanwhile, however, renewed assurance was given that the State Department would keep this Embassy informally advised from time to time regarding the progress on the draft itself. From the foregoing it would seem clear that the Department of Fisheries will not have to consider introducing legislation during the next session in order to supplant the Order-in-Council confirming the present agreement between Canada and the United States. I have etc. | |
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