811.0141 Phoenix Group/108
The British Embassy to the Department of State
Aide-Mémoire
His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom have observed that the Report of the Statutory Board on Submarine, Destroyer, Mine and Naval Air Bases transmitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives by the Secretary of the Navy on the 27th December, 1938,12 refers, in paragraph 106, to Canton Island as being among “other United States islands in the Pacific”, and appears to contemplate its development for strategic purposes.
His Majesty’s Government assume that they will be kept informed of any developments in connexion with this scheme and that due account will be taken of their rights under the regime for the use of Canton and Enderbury Islands in common.
- House Document No. 65, 76th Cong., 1st sess.↩