500.A4a/5: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Siam (Brodie)

7. You may informally advise the Minister for Foreign Affairs that the Secretary of State is gratified to learn the sentiments expressed in first paragraph of your number I January 7, 2 p.m.

You should explain to the Minister for Foreign Affairs that the Four-Power Pact relates only to those problems which concern insular possessions and insular dominions in the region of the Pacific.

Hughes