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500.C1197/717: Telegram

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

Washington, May 4, 1934—5 p.m.

179. Your 223, May 4, noon. For your confidential information and for that of Fuller.

1.
The Department perceives no objection to the course of action outlined in paragraphs 1 and 2 of your telegram under reference provided the British Government also follows this course.
2.
Upon the receipt of definite information that the British Government has replied to the League in the vein indicated, please telegraph the Department and, in your discretion, inform the Foreign [Page 356] Office that the American Government is forwarding a similar reply to the League.
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