Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1938, The British Commonwealth, Europe, Near East, and Africa, Volume II

851.5151/1701: Telegram

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

Washington, January 31, 1938—10 a.m.

52. For Cochran from Secretary of the Treasury.¹⁰ Your 160. The reference to the Tripartite Agreement and France which the French Financial Attaché to the United States reported to Rueff was given only as background information to the press and not as a direct statement or interview. In the circumstances Secretary Morgenthau does not wish his name to be used in connection with it.

Hull

10. Marginal note: “Telephoned by Mr. Lochhead, Treasury Department.”