Office of the Historian

840.48 Refugees/1108: Telegram

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

London, December 15, 1938—2 p.m.
[Received December 15—9:50 a.m.]

1436. Personal for the Acting Secretary from Rublee. Halifax has arranged for me to be present at a meeting at 6 o’clock this evening in Winterton’s office when Schacht will present a plan. Montagu Norman91 and Leith-Ross92 will also be there. The Foreign Office says that Schacht has informed them he does not have plenipotentiary powers. He merely has authority to present the plan in behalf of his principals; he will not be prepared to discuss it. Accordingly the British propose to receive the plan without comment and to turn it over to me for purposes of negotiation. That this will be the procedure will be made plain to Schacht. [Rublee.]

Johnson
  1. Governor of the Bank of England.↩
  2. Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, Chief Economic Adviser to the British Government.↩