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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Under Secretary of State (Acheson)
Lord Halifax called at my request. I handed him a copy of the Aide-Mémoire, dated November 29, explaining its contents briefly. I then made the oral statement contained in the attached Memorandum of Oral Communication28 and handed Lord Halifax a copy.
Lord Halifax read me a brief memorandum prepared by Sir George Sansom29 which anticipated that we might press for the resumption of diplomatic relations and urged that this should not be done until the termination of the state of war between Great Britain and Siam. It also urged that we say to the Siamese that they should enter into the agreement which the British proposed.
I said to Lord Halifax that I thought the Aide-Mémoire and the written oral statement which I had just handed him pointed out a way for the resolution of these difficulties, and I hoped that the British would find it possible to agree with the suggestions there made in the very near future.