740.00119 Council/11–2745: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 27—3:56 p.m.]
12399. Personal to Secretary Byrnes. I am very sorry that I was not able to work out all the things that I know you wanted. I did eliminate anger from interchange.34 Bevin wants to establish three areas under which we accept Monroe Doctrine tradition with good neighbor policy, within which smaller states exercise self-government. He is desperately anxious to talk with you before Moscow Conference. Your sentence in teletype conversation which begins, “the difficulty in conversing over this teletype shows necessity of our talking across the table” gave him confidence that there was possibility of minds meeting. If you would agree to going on to Moscow via London I believe we could get him to agree to a schedule for conference in Moscow. He realizes that success at such a conference is dependent in part upon agreement on agenda. Please advise me because I am sure I could help you in carrying out your program.
- Presumably reference is to the Trans-Atlantic Teletype Conference between the Secretary of State and Foreign Secretary Bevin; see supra. ↩