800.6354/116: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Kennedy) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 9—1:40 p.m.]
315. The Department’s instruction No. 535 of March 2nd74 has arrived. The Foreign Office proposes to arrange for the tin discussion to take place next week.
The opportunity presented itself both at the Foreign Office and in the course of an informal talk with Leith-Ross75 to ensure that the tin note and the purport of the discussion would be considered by the [Page 914] British Government as such and not merely passed on to the Tin Committee or the British members thereof for review and rebuttal.
In the meantime Leith-Ross mentioned in connection with America’s need for supplies of tin in case of emergency that it would be helpful if in the discussion some definite or even tentative proposal could be made for extra market supplies of tin if that is what the United States Government really desires.