Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1935, General, the Near East and Africa, Volume I

765.84/899: Telegram

The Chargé in the United Kingdom (Atherton) to the Secretary of State

London, August 21, 1935—7 p.m.
[Received August 21—1:15 p.m.]

388. Cabinet members have been in consultation today with the leaders of the Opposition, the Dominion representatives and representatives of the Committee on Imperial Defence. In the given circumstances importance is attached here to Mr. MacDonald’s⁶² statement to the press just before the Cabinet met this afternoon:

“I regard the present situation as the most serious thing we have had to face since 1914. It is a very grave situation.”

Atherton

62. J. Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister.