Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1938, General, Volume I

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

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