711.00 Statement July 16, 1937/173
Memorandum by the Chief of the Division of European Affairs (Moffat)
The Czechoslovak Minister called today. He was obviously much perturbed by the Hungarian answer12 to the Secretary’s “eight pillars of peace” statement which he considered intemperate and inconsistent with the Secretary’s attempt to formulate underlying principles in that it dealt solely with Hungary’s immediate problems. He tried to make me comment on it which I took care not to do. He then asked if the Secretary was satisfied with the responses to which I countered that not all answers had come in and that we were certainly hoping to find a common denominator running through them all. He asked whether the Secretary intended to make any statement summarizing his impressions of the various answers and thought that he might want to take the occasion of his radio broadcast on September 19 to do this. The general impression that he left with me was that far from clearing the air, our handout had complicated the situation from Czechoslovakia’s point of view.
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