740.0011 European War 198–9/2775: Telegram
The Ambassador in Belgium ( Cudahy ) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 9—4:20 p.m.]
100. For the President and the Secretary of State. I have just conferred with the King. He does not anticipate an attack on this country at the present time. He expressed the opinion that the alarm in the Netherlands is another exhibit of the war of nerves and points out as significant, in support of this belief, that the envoys mentioned in my telegram No. 99, May 8, 6 p.m., and reported by the Belgian Ambassador in Berlin as having left Berlin yesterday for The Hague have not yet been reported at The Hague.
He assured me he would keep me advised of developments and when convinced that an invasion of Belgium was imminent would inform me so that I could telegraph you for timing action suggested in my 87, of April 18, addressed to the President and Secretary of State.