740.00112 European War 1939/8801: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
4089. It does not seem that any action is required by us on the information in the first paragraph of Stockholm’s 2027 July 1, (its 336 to you) but in order that you may be in a position to conclude agreement if question is formally raised by the Swedes we furnish you at this time our views.
We feel that the Swedes tend to be splitting hairs on this question. However, if the principle is clearly maintained that the Swedes formally inform us of their intention to stop the traffic under the conditions already agreed upon, we would accept any reasonable modification of the already proposed phraseology with a view to making it clearer the Swedes’ action would be unilateral.
Repeated to Stockholm as our no. 750.