"If in the course of such discussions an opportunity arose, would I have your authority to suggest the abolition of the White Paper and its substitution, if necessary, by a bilateral declaration designed to allay such suspicions as might still persist that we are using lend-lease to further our commercial interests?" I understand that the Foreign Secretary and the President of the Board of Trade may be bringing separately before the Committee the question of our trade with Latin America, with which Washington telegram No.