810.74/529a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Chile (Bowers)
Washington, October 7, 1942—8
p.m.
1189. Reference Heath’s92 telephone conversation with Duggan.93
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- Department approves plan to deny the use of code on circuits going out of the hemisphere, subject to the provision of adequate safeguards for maintaining the code privileges of the British Embassy.
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- In approving this plan, the Department understands that it is without prejudice to the carrying out of the plan to discontinue the Axis circuits. Please continue your endeavors to promote this objective. If it is necessary to postpone the meeting of the board for a few days in order to accomplish this, you may arrange for such postponement, informing the Department immediately of such action and enumerating any unforeseen difficulties that may have arisen to prejudice the attainment of this objective.
Your reply to the Department’s 1174, October 5, 5 p.m., has not been received.
Hull