Office of the Historian

870.01 A. M. G./21: Telegram

The Counselor of Embassy in the United Kingdom (Bucknell) to the Secretary of State

London, December 9, 1943—5 p.m.

8552. We again took up the subject matter of the Department’s 7742, December 7, 8 p.m.,1 with Nigel Ronald today. He told us that this was one of the matters which had been discussed at the highest level in NorthAfrica but that the Foreign Office had not yet learned of the decision which had been reached. As soon as they did have this information they would be in a position to reply. Ronald stressed the fact that the Foreign Office was as anxious to settle the matter as was the Department.

Bucknell
  1. Not printed herein. It concerned a proposal that the United States participate in the work of the British ATB (Administration of Territories—Balkans) Committee, which had its headquarters at Cairo. See ante, p. 777, and post, p. 871.↩