Office of the Historian

868.48/2036: Telegram

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

London, February 24, 1942—7 p.m.
[Received February 24—2:12 p.m.]

877. Your 616, February 17 and Embassy’s 845, February 22. The Foreign Office has just informed us that they fully approve of the proposed wheat shipment on steamer Industria or substitute ship either to Greece or Turkey as we wish. They have telegraphed their Embassy in Washington to this effect.24

Winant
  1. For statement released to the press March 6 on this subject, see Department of State Bulletin, March 7, 1942, p. 208.↩