793.94/8877: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Bingham) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 21—7:15 a.m.]
492. My 489, July 20, 6 p.m. The Foreign Secretary telephoned me at 8:45 last night saying that since he had seen me in the late afternoon the Far Eastern situation had taken a still graver turn for the worse and that he and the Prime Minister48 had been in conference and had agreed upon a suggestion to be made to the United States Government; that while he did not wish to read this to me over the telephone he wanted me to know that such a message was going forward and that he would expect to show it to me today. I saw him this morning and he has read the message to me and said that he expected an answer at any time from Lindsay and when it arrived he would ask me to meet with him again so that he could inform me of our [the?] reply to this communication.
Since dictating the above I have received a message from Eden asking me to see him again this afternoon at 4:45.
- Neville Chamberlain.↩