1 Sent through the External Affairs Officer in London.

2 Dispatched 11 March. On file AA:A989, 44/735/55/3/5. Paragraph 4
read: 'We said that we realised that the terms of the Mutual Aid
Agreement involved reductions in preferential margins and that
these reductions would not be effected without major adjustments
to Australian industries. Before we could commit ourselves however
we needed a much clearer idea of the effect which the various
proposed reductions would have on our industries and trade. For
instance Australia was greatly interested in British prosperity
and would wish to know what prospects there were of the United
Kingdom obtaining compensating markets in return for those lost.

Further we would need to know what commodity agreements there
would be and how they would develop, for example Australia could
not surrender the meat preferences in the United Kingdom without
adequate safe-guarding arrangements.'
3 See Evatt's letter to Melville of 27 January (on file AA:A989,
44/735/55/3/1) and Document 28, containing the five basic
principles Evatt included in his letter to Melville.

4 Cablegram 42, dispatched 2 March. On file AA:A989,
44/735/55/3/2.

5 Document 68.

6 The Australian delegation had circulated a document, ASD(44)10,
consisting of a memorandum entitled 'An International Employment
Agreement'; appendix A, 'A draft International Employment
Agreement', and appendix B, 'Aspects requiring further
consideration' (on file AA:CP43/1, 43/1324, i). Appendix A,
amended at meeting on 6 and 13 March, formed the basis of 'A Draft
International Employment Agreement' published as Document 87. The
major amendment to the Australian draft was the deletion of
section (vi) on agreed
7 See Document 21, note 15.