862t.01/203: Telegram
The Commissioner at Berlin (Dresel) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 29—2:50 p.m.]
1349. My No. 1342 of November 26.47 The British Ambassador here agrees with views expressed in my telegram and emphasizes [Page 336] especially that he feels that the speeches made in the occupied areas showed no intention of not executing treaty. He is therefore recommending that his Government should not join in the French protest but should make individual representations or present a joint note much more moderate than the French one. This would not contain claim that nonexecution of treaty was contemplated in the speeches but would point out the great inadvisability of arousing public opinion by such utterances in the Rhineland.
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