Office of the Historian

852.00/7278: Telegram

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

Washington, February 2, 1938—6 p.m.

49. Your 79, January 31, 7 p.m. You may inform the Foreign Office that I shall take an early opportunity to deplore on behalf of the American public recent bombardments from the air of undefended and thickly populated cities.15 For your information, I think it wiser to make such a statement complete in itself without relation to expressions on the same subject by either the British or French Governments.

Hull
  1. Similar instructions were sent to the Ambassador in France in telegram No. 59, February 2, 6 p.m.↩