740.0011 European War 1939/1092: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 27—5:55 p.m.]
2837. The British Ambassador said to me today that Sir Percy Loraine, British Ambassador in Rome, had passed through Paris yesterday and had said to him that he was absolutely certain that Mussolini himself had turned away from Germany and was much more [Page 476] favorable to France and England than he had been in the past. He added that Loraine was confident that this evolution would continue provided the French and British should have sufficient discretion not to talk about it.
Sir Ronald Campbell also said to me that his Government did not believe that there was any chance that the Japanese and Soviet Governments would reach agreement for a division of China.