500.A15Franco–British/16: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Herrick)

[Paraphrase]

255. For Marriner. Reference to Atherton’s telegram No. 184, from London, August 10, 5 p.m., regarding your conversation with Lord Cushendun. The President desires that neither I nor any of our Embassies discuss further the Anglo-French agreement on subject of naval disarmament, and nothing will be done here in regard to it until the President returns to Washington.45 Transmit copy to our Embassies London and Brussels.

Kellogg
  1. This sentence was also telegraphed as an instruction to the Embassies in Germany (No. 89), Italy (No. 97), and Japan on August 22.