Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, 1929, Volume I

500.A15a3/135: Telegram

The Ambassador in Great Britain (Dawes) to the Secretary of State

London, August 27, 1929—noon.
[Received August 27—10:12 a.m.]

245. …

On arrival at the office this morning I found following letter from the Prime Minister.

“26th August, 1929.

My dear General Dawes: On further examination of the despatch of the 23rd instant,⁴⁴ I see that I did not make it as clear as I ought to have done in paragraph 17 that the figures I quoted as having been used by Mr. Gibson were not official figures and not binding in any way on the American Government. Since my return I have been informed that they were only used in purely personal conversation as something which might happen when we got into closer grips in making an agreement.

I am, yours very sincerely, J. Ramsay MacDonald.”

The Foreign Office asks that for purposes of reference the Prime Minister’s undated letter “in my 242, August 24, 2 p.m., be dated August 23rd.”

Dawes

44. See telegram No. 242, August 24, from the Ambassador in Great Britain, p. 196.