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WISER - TOP SECRET

Minute Sheet
November 22th, 1951.
The Ambassador. '

Reply to U.S. approach concerning
procedures for handling U.S.
requests of November 8th.,

I had a call from Mr. Chase on Wednesday
evening, November 21st, to ask when a reply might
I told
be expected from the Canadian Government.
him that I thought that there would probably be a
delay before any official views were forthcoming
from Ottawa owing to the absence of senior
Ministers on U.N. and NATO business.
Mr. Chase said that he had not yet sent
:
..an acknowledgment to . the Department of Defense,
and it would be helpful to him if we could inform
him officially that' the U.S. authorities should
expect a delay before official views were submitted
from the Canadian Government for the reasons I had
It would then enable him to write an
indicated.
acknowledgment to the Defense Department, informing
them that the matters mentioned in Mr. Lovett's
letter had been taken up with the Canadian
authorities but that a delay would have to occur
owing to the absence ofthe Canadian Ministers
concerned in Europe on U.N. and NATO business.
I wonder if you would consider it worth
while speaking to Mr. Escott Reid about this, or
would you like me to send a message following up
our last message. Wiser No. 16 of November 17th?

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