Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1934, General, the British Commonwealth, Volume I

500.A15A4 General Committee/798: Telegram

The Ambassador in Germany (Dodd) to the Secretary of State

Berlin, February 23, 1934—10 a.m.
[Received February 23—6:40 a.m.]

42. Saw Eden and the British Ambassador yesterday evening. Eden says Germany accepts the 10-year pact idea; will not manufacture aggressive arms if pact is agreed to and agrees to inspection commission and accepts much of the character of plan. He said American cable⁶⁷ had produced effect. He expects success in Rome. France is still great problem.

Copy mailed London, Paris, Rome, Geneva.

Dodd

67. Telegram No. 403, February 20, 1934 (not printed), which contained text of American memorandum of February 19 to the British Embassy.