Office of the Historian

711.5112 France/76: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Great Britain (Atherton)

[Paraphrase]
Washington, December 30, 1927—3 p.m.

227. Department’s circular of December 28.21 This morning I orally and confidentially informed British Ambassador of contents of note to French Ambassador regarding Briand’s proposals. At the British Ambassador’s suggestion, you are instructed to read to Sir Austen Chamberlain, as strictly confidential, the text of the note to the French Ambassador. You should not leave a copy of the text.22

Kellogg
  1. See footnote 18, p. 626.↩
  2. In telegram No. 1, Jan. 3, 1928, the Chargé in Great Britain reported that in the absence of Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, he had read the note to Sir Victor Wellesley, Deputy Under Secretary of State.↩