840.50/7–944: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
6036. Reurtel 5419, July 9. We are sending you by air mail copies of memoranda of conversations78 which we have had with Richard [Page 64] Law. We had a frank exchange of views in which Mr. Law stressed the financial difficulties of Great Britain and requested our understanding and assistance and in which we emphasized the importance which we attach to a broader and more liberal commercial policy. Mr. Law said that Sir John Anderson might come to Washington in August. He informed us that he was authorized by his Government to say that the British Government would be prepared to resume Article VII conversations “in the autumn”. He stated that the British officials taking part in the conversations would be headed by several officers of Cabinet rank, but he stressed the fact that this need not affect in any way the composition of the American group since the actual conversations on the British side would be carried on by the same British officials who came to Washington last September.
In view of these developments it seems unnecessary to send anyone to London now as suggested in your recent telegrams.
- For memoranda of conversations held on July 19 and July 20, see vol. iii, p. 50.↩