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The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
2013. Aviation Daily dated March 9 contained fairly accurate summary of United States agenda, mentioned in Embassy’s 2014, March [Page 418] 11, 11 p.m. It quoted verbatim the first and second sections of the British agenda and summarized the remaining sections, adding that “it has been established that the British agenda was prepared prior to the submission of the U.S. agenda.” The Daily said it would publish “a summary of the elaborate Canadian proposal” within a day or two.64
The Department also dislikes the publication of this material. When Wright of the British Embassy mentioned the matter to the Department he was told confidentially that there was reason to believe the leak had occurred in London. The Canadian Minister Counselor also volunteered the deduction that since Parrish had recently returned from London and had not been in touch with any Canadian officials who had access to the draft Canadian convention, it was clear to the Canadian Government that Parrish had obtained these texts in London. He seems to have had possession of the Canadian convention before it was delivered to the Department. Our hat is off to his enterprise, but the repercussions are inconvenient.
- See Aviation Daily, March 13, 1944.↩