500.A15a3/66: Telegram
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Dawes) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 15—9:05 a.m.]
190. I received your telegrams Nos. 176 and 177, July 12, Saturday. I communicated their contents to Mr. MacDonald while on a visit to Chequers yesterday afternoon. The Prime Minister was greatly pleased and told me that in order to properly express his appreciation of your action in the premises that he wished to prepare a letter. This answer should be received by us very shortly. Mr. MacDonald said [Page 148] that your response to the decision reached by him of postponing work on new cruisers was a great contribution to the progress of the common cause for which we were striving.