841.857 Athenia/95: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Kennedy)
823. Your 1462, September 6, 1 a.m.78 and 1463, September 6, 2 p.m. Please advise whether affidavits of any of the people interviewed by Commander Hitchcock and Captain Kirk were obtained. Please also instruct Consul Glasgow to endeavor obtain affidavits from a representative group of American survivors on circumstances of the sinking and particularly on the report that the disaster was caused by a submarine.
This information will be extremely important in connection with efforts to fix responsibility.
A similar telegram is being sent to Dublin.
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