550.S1/622: Telegram
The Chargé in France (Marriner) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 6—8:30 a.m.]
137. From Norman Davis. MacDonald called me by telephone this morning. He seemed delighted that everything seems set now for him to go but said he had not yet received an official invitation; that the first acknowledgment that his visit would be welcome at the time proposed was through the statement given to the press in Washington.38 I told him that as he knew the President had withheld an invitation at the Prime Minister’s own request to me (see my 64, March 31, 8 p.m., from London) but that I was satisfied that he could count on the official invitation coming through now. I therefore suggest that you arrange the invitation with Lindsay. [Davis.]
- Department of State, Press Releases, April 8, 1933, p. 219.↩