611.59A31/60: Telegram
The Minister in Iceland (MacVeagh) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 28—6:17 a.m.]
72. My No. 65, October 24, 9 p.m.17 The British Minister told me this afternoon that he has today, under instructions, presented to the Icelandic Government the five proposals listed in paragraph 2 of your No. 98 of October 21.18 He gave me a copy of his note, and said that the British Embassy in Washington has been instructed to inform the Department and request its support. The note concludes with the following:
“If the above proposals are acceptable to the Icelandic Government, His Majesty’s Government would [apparent omission] to telegraph the draft of the new agreement which would presumably take the form of an exchange of notes in the same manner as the agreement of March 14 last past.”