Office of the Historian

475. Telegram From the Embassy in the United Kingdom to the Department of State1

London, July 19, 1956—6 p.m.

344. Reference Embtel 247, July 13.2 Foreign Office tells Embassy that Lord John Hope on July 17 delivered letter to Hammarskjold, who expressed appreciation for advance information. He expressed general agreement with Selwyn Lloyd’s views as contained in letter,3 agreed he could probably undertake stage one and said he shared HMG’s misgivings regarding stage two. He added that he would prefer not to be involved in stage two.

Aldrich
  1. Source: Department or State, Central Files, 684A.86/7–1956. Secret. Received at 3:14 p.m. Repeated to Cairo and Tel Aviv.↩
  2. See footnote 3, Document 459.↩
  3. A copy of Lloyd’s letter to Hammarskjold, dated July 14, is attached to Burdett’s memorandum of a conversation on July 18 with Bailey and Morris of the British Embassy. (Department of State, S/S–NEA Files: Lot 61 D 417, Omega #9)↩