851B.01/10
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Secretary of State
The British Ambassador called at his request. He desired first to know what had taken place between the French and this Government in regard to an adjustment of the ship situation in the harbor of Martinique. I repeated to him in disgust and disappointment my conversation with the French Ambassador on this subject on July 16. He said nothing except to express the view that in pursuing this course of nonaction the French Government was probably taking orders from the German Government in relation to the ship situation at Martinique. I replied that that might be true and that we were giving attention to that phase and to all similar phases along the Atlantic Coast.