Eleven days after the most obvious renewal of the battle between the State Department and the Treasury Department—the dispute about Vittel internees holding protective papers in the names of American republics—Pehle reported to Morgenthau about an improvement in the relations between the two departments. Whereas the State Department had been delaying the transmission of WRB cables, this had considerably improved. “There is no question but that the situation has greatly changed for the better. Of course, we can’t say how long this happy state of affairs will continue.”