760F.62/1135: Telegram

The Ambassador in France (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State

1604. The British Ambassador has just informed me in greatest confidence that Hitler’s reply to the two notes from Chamberlain presented to him by Horace Wilson was the most violent outburst possible; that nothing could have been more unhelpful than Hitler’s [Page 674] response. He added very privately that nevertheless Horace Wilson expected to see Hitler again this morning.

Bullitt