Office of the Historian

760C.62/1022: Telegram

The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Kennedy) to the Secretary of State

London, August 26, 1939—noon.
[Received August 26—6:25 a.m.]

1263. Omitted from my number 1262, August 25, midnight, was the important item that Henderson’s message stated Hitler said the only one to benefit from a war between Germany and England would be Japan who might very well become the dominating factor in the world.

Kennedy