760C.62/1178: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Bullitt)
686. Your 1660, August 30, 11 a.m. I have submitted the suggestions communicated in the last paragraph of your telegram to the President, and he desires me to let you know that inasmuch as Hitler in his last note to the British Government accepts the idea of direct negotiations between Poland and Germany, the possibility of mediation along the lines indicated would not seem to him to be practicable at least at this moment. He feels that the issue at this time is whether the direct negotiations now accepted by both Poland and Germany can be carried out and particularly whether they can be carried out on the basis of strict equality between the two sides.