Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1940, The British Commonwealth, The Soviet Union, The Near East and Africa, Volume III

641.006/543: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Kennedy )

Washington , March 18, 1940—6 p.m.

512. Your 666, March 18. Confirming Mr. Grady’s⁴² telephone conversation of today with the Ambassador,⁴³ please urge strongly a reconsideration of impending order to license imports of all foodstuffs and telegraph decision of British authorities.

Hull

42. Henry F. Grady, Assistant Secretary of State.
43. No record of this conversation has been found in Department files.