Office of the Historian

641.6231/178: Telegram

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

London, March 18, 1939—6 p.m.
[Received March 18—2:35 p.m.]

364. Your 169, March 7, 6 p.m.27 Bracken, editor of Financial News, London, makes statement that Sir Walter Layton28 who has just returned from the United States, asserts you are seriously perturbed as to the possible course of the current Federation of British Industries–Reichsgruppe Industrie trade negotiations.

Wallace, representative of Chase Bank here, tells Oliver Stanley29 that Aldridge30 reports you as approving these negotiations. Stanley and Board of Trade concerned about these contrary reports. Although information as to actual results achieved to date is not yet available, I would appreciate receiving some definite statement to give Stanley.

Kennedy
  1. Ante, p. 28.↩
  2. Chairman, News Chronicle, Ltd., and Star Newspaper Co., Ltd., London.↩
  3. President of the British Board of Trade.↩
  4. Apparently refers to Winthrop W. Aldrich, Chairman of the Board of the Chase National Bank.↩