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The Minister in Greece (MacVeagh) to the Secretary of State

23. Department’s instruction No. 445, March 8. The Prime Minister called me to the Foreign Office this morning and read me a first person note, which he subsequently handed me, accepting our proposal that we proceed immediately to the negotiation of an accord incorporating the substance of the proposed modus vivendi of July 19, 1937.19a I informed him that the Department is forwarding me a new text embodying the same principles as that already proposed but more flexible in certain respects. To this he replied that his Government remains at my disposition, but I would be grateful if the Department would inform me as to the probable date of arrival of the new text.

MacVeagh
  1. See footnote 4, p. 517.