Office of the Historian

741.65/536a

The Acting Secretary of State to President Roosevelt

Washington, April 18, 1938.

My Dear Mr. President: With reference to our telephone conversation of this morning, I am enclosing herewith for your consideration a suggestion of what you might wish to say at your press conference tomorrow with regard to the British-Italian Agreement.24

I have spoken on the telephone to the Secretary and he is in accord with the general lines of this suggestion.25

Believe me

Faithfully yours,

Sumner Welles
  1. See telegram No. 160, April 19, 7 p.m., to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom, infra.↩
  2. See “Statements by the Secretary of State”, Department of State, Press Releases, May 14, 1938, p. 575.↩