800.796/580: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 6—4:56 p.m.]
1823. Reference Embassy’s telegrams 1724, March 2 and 1767, March 4. Foreign Office has a report from the British Embassy in Washington that Department informed member of British Embassy when latter discussed recent proposals for preliminary aviation conference that this Embassy had already reported this information to the Department. I greatly fear that our sources of information on aviation in the British Government will be jeopardized by this disclosure. I would like to point out that our purpose in sending telegrams 1724, March 2 and 1767 March 4 was to give the Department additional time to consider the questions raised prior to being notified thereof by the British Embassy, in the event the course mentioned was finally approved by the British Government.