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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Chief of the Division of Controls (Green)
The British Ambassador called at my office this morning to discuss some problems which have arisen in connection with the administration of the Act of June 8, 1938,17 requiring the registration of agents of foreign principals. Before he took up that matter, however, we had some general conversation in regard to the present situation in Europe. I asked him whether during his stay in England he had found any considerable number of persons of the opinion that “peace in our time” had been assured.
He replied emphatically in the negative, saying that he had discussed the matter with all sorts of people and that no one to whom he had talked—“not even the Prime Minister”—was now of the opinion that war could be indefinitely postponed. He went on to tell me at some length of the British preparations for defense.
- 52 Stat. 631.↩