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Volume #13 - 62. | |
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CHAPITRE II LE RÈGLEMENT DE LA PAIX EN EUROPE | |
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PREMIÈRE PARTIE LES TRAITÉS CONCLUS PAR SUITE DE LA CONFÉRENCE DE PAIX DE PARIS | |
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CH/Vol. 2085 |
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Le haut-commissaire au Royaume-Uni au sous-secrétaire d'État aux Affaires extérieures | |
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London,
le 19 février 1947 |
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Dear Mike [Pearson]: Ford has sent me a copy of his Despatch No. 77 of February 11 th† reporting the Soviet request for the revision of the Petsamo Agreement.7 Since I had a good deal to do with these negotiations from the Ottawa end, I think I should let you know that the present Soviet request for extending the period over which compensation payments are to be transferred from six years to eight does not strike me as unreasonable. The quantum of compensation secured for the International Nickel Company was relatively generous, certainly more substantial than the company had any reason to hope for. It is true, as Ford observes in the final paragraph of his despatch, that there was never any direct relationship contemplated between payments of compensation by the Soviet Government for the nickel plant in Petsamo, and the rate of payments which the U.S.S.R. might have expected to get in reparations from Finland. However, the prolongation of the period of Finnish reparations payments from six to eight years probably represents a substantial easement of the Finnish economic position, and was in itself a desirable development. In all the circumstances I should be inclined not to argue the question of the connection between the Petsamo Protocol and the Finnish reparations agreement, and to agree to the requested extension in the time limit for payments under the Protocol, which as far as I know nave been coming through punctually on the appointed days. Sincerely yours, 7 Voir le volume 12, le document 58/See Volume 12, Document 58. | |
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