800.796/12–144: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
10104. Personal for the Ambassador. Your 10608, December 1, 6 p.m. We fully understand the handicaps under which you have laboured. As we have told you we have had much the same difficulties ourselves in that our aviation experts as well as yours are in Chicago. At the same time we have felt that discussions of substance should be confined to Chicago and that representations to the British here and in London should be on the broader lines of the President’s messages.
You will have seen from the President’s latest message to the Prime Minister22 that the conference has not adjourned and has on the contrary tabled the Swinton–Berle motion to refer unfinished business to the Council. Your 10608 indicates that your efforts have very definitely borne fruit and we greatly appreciate them.
- Telegram 664, December 2, not printed.↩