841.24/811: Telegram

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

4606. Personal for the Secretary. In answer to your telegram 4079, September 27, 8 p.m. I got in touch with Mr. Eden this noon. I asked him to help me expedite consideration of the draft agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom. I explained to him that Mr. Maynard Keynes had been given a copy of this draft by Assistant Secretary Acheson on the 28 of July. He told me that he would get in touch with Sir Kingsley Wood, the Chancellor. This afternoon Mr. Eden telephoned me to say that the Chancellor was sending at once a memorandum to Lord Halifax and that a copy would be forwarded to me this evening. If you want me to pursue this matter further, I will gladly do so.

Since Dr. Penrose41 arrived I have gone over all the questions that Mr. Acheson discussed with him as well as going through all the trade and economic material that you have forwarded to me.

Before your message 3674, September 9, noon,42 and since I have taken every occasion to emphasize our views as set forth in the second paragraph of that message. I believe that we have made some progress.

Winant
  1. Ernest F. Penrose, economic adviser to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom.
  2. Vol. i, p. 372.