& lUrS (ht ' DEPARTMENT OF STATE
November 4, 1939
WASHINGTON
Your Excellency's note of October 28 refers to
my communication addressed to Your Excellency under
date of September 1 wherein the United States Govern-
ment expressed its willingness to undertake the pro-
v
tection of persons, property and interests for whose
protection the British Ambassador in Germany and the
consular officers under his superintendence are normally
responsible*
Your Excellency's note under acknowledgment expresses
the hope that the United States Government would also be
good enough to take charge of similar British interests
in that part of Poland occupied by the German forces and
also in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and in
Slovakia, all of which territories you state are regarded
by the British Government as being in enemy occupation.
In
His Excellency
The Right Honorable
The Marquess of Lothian, C.H
British Ambassador*
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In replyn I have the honor to state that the
United States Government will gladly agree to take
charge of similar British interests in that part of
Poland occupied by the German forces and also in the
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.   However, the
United States Government is not in a position to take
charge of British interests in Slovakia.
Instructions have been telegraphed to the American
Charge d'Affaires in Berlin, and through him to American
consular officers in that part of Poland occupied by the
German forces and in the Protectorate of Bohemia and
Moravia, authorizing them to act accordingly.
Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my
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