711.00 Statement July 16, 1937/143: Telegram
The Chargé in Germany (Mayer) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 9—1:10 p.m.]
191. Department’s circular telegram August 4, 1 p.m. The failure of the Department to receive any German comment upon the Secretary’s statement of July 16 appears to have been due to a misunderstanding. The Foreign Office read to me this morning Staatssekretaer Mackensen’s memorandum of his conversation with Ambassador Dodd during which he made the following comment on the Secretary’s statement (see Embassy’s 167, July 27 [21], 11 a.m.6).
“The Reich Government has taken note of the statement of Secretary of State Hull with due interest. Its basic principle is as is generally known directed toward the regulation of international relations by pacific agreement and hence coincides with the ideas developed by the Secretary of State”.
According to the Foreign Office the Staatssekretaer felt that this constituted the German Government’s reply.
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