751G.92/6: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Thailand (Grant)
44. 1. Department’s 37, August 21, 6 p.m. Please report whether you have taken the action suggested, together with any indications which you have had of the reaction of the Thai authorities to what you may have said.
2. Department’s 42, September 3.67 Please reply.
3. Department has received from various sources reports indicating uneasiness regarding possible intentions of Thailand in relation [Page 102] to the French Indochina situation. Department assumes that you are keeping closely in touch with your principally interested diplomatic colleagues as well as with the Thai Government in regard to potentialities of that situation and wishes to be kept currently informed of any developments of which you learn that may be of interest to the Department.
4. Department desires that you keep in mind the importance of your using, discreetly, when and as opportunity offers, your influence in the direction of discouraging action by the Thai Government which, if taken, might tend to complicate the already disturbed situation in southeast Asia.
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