740.00112 European War 1939/8–2044: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 20—9:06 p.m.]
6753. British have instructed Mallet to proceed with joint formal statement and accompanying oral comments in accordance with Department’s 6607, August 19, 6 p.m. (1656 to Stockholm) as modified by Department’s 6614, August 19, 10 p.m. (1659 to Stockholm), unless in the opinion of the British, Russian and American Ministers the making of this approach on Monday, August 21, would jeopardize Swedish Government ratification of the decision taken by Boheman on August 18 to withdraw insurance from Swedish ships sailing to Baltic ports as reported in Stockholm’s 3163, August 18.46
Sent to Stockholm as 352 and repeated to Department as 6753 and Moscow as 90.
- Not printed.↩