811.0141 Phoenix Group/64: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Kennedy) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 6—5:33 p.m.]
286. My 265, March 30, 6 p.m. When I saw Halifax today we talked about a message from Lindsay regarding Secretary Ickes’ permission to the Pan American Company to land at Canton Island. Halifax feels that since His Majesty’s Government has carried out a suggestion made by the President that the whole matter be put in trust for administration, this step is not one which is conducive to working out arrangements amicably. I think he is so advising Lindsay but he talked it over with me and said that since I had brought the matter up with him and he had pushed it through, he thought I [Page 89] ought to know about this new development. I agreed with him and told him I would communicate with you at once and urge you to have the entire matter held up until final disposition is made of the President’s suggestion.