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Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, by the Chief of the Division of Near Eastern Affairs (Alling)
Mr. Hayter12 telephoned to say that the Embassy had had another inquiry from the Foreign Office as to the status of the proposed appointment of an American representative as a vis-à-vis to Lord Swinton at Accra. I told Mr. Hayter that the matter was still under consideration but that no final decision had been made. Mr. Hayter said that the Foreign Office was continually pressing the Embassy for a definite reply to the proposal which had been made on several previous occasions that such a representative be appointed. He said he was under the impression that the Foreign Office considered the matter of some importance and some urgency, since there were apparently many matters requiring coordination on the West Coast of Africa, not only as between the British and ourselves but also as among the various American civilian agencies operating in that area. I told Mr. Hayter I should be glad to pass this along to the appropriate quarters and that we would let him know as soon as anything definite developed.13
- W. G. Hayter, First Secretary of the British Embassy.↩
- Subsequent correspondence on this subject will be printed in Foreign Relations, 1943, vol. ii , under France, the first section.↩