341.1154L58/263: Telegram

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

218. Your 186, April 21, noon, regarding Lewis Gun case. Unless you have received note from Foreign Office promised you on April 20, please take up matter again with Sir John Simon. You should again state that this Government has difficulty in understanding why British Government should not be willing to arbitrate a case which it must be admitted is justiciable in character; that if that Government is confident of the correctness of its contention that the claim is without legal basis it would seem that it should welcome arbitration, not only for the purpose of having that position confirmed, but also for the purpose of removing from the field of international relations a case on which there is a difference of view.

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