[F 3017/2963/61]
(No. 285.)
Sir,
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in order
March 27, 1939.
see me this mornii
repancy between what he J
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might clear what seemed
said to me on the 24th March on the subject of the United States fleet returning
*7*f to the Pacific, and your Excellency's telegram reporting your conversation on the
same subject by telephone with the Under-Secretary of State on the same day.
2. The Ambassador said that there was no essential discrepancy between
the two positions, inasmuch as he had very little doubt that the reply given
and reported in your telegram had been thrown into that form in order
position of the President should be all right on the record. It would obviously
be of advantage to him, should the need ever arise, to be able to say that it had
been his own original intention to bring the fleet back to the Pacific about the
that he understood the United States Embassador in Paris had been in touch with
the United States Ambassador in Warsaw, and had heard reports of the German
Government having made proposals
which the Polish Government had rei«
5.   I told him that, so far as I
information.
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I am, with great truth and respect,
Sir,
Your Excellency's obedient Servant,
(For the Secretary of State)
His Excellency
The Right Honourable
Sir Ronald Lindsay, G.C.M.G., K.C.B.,
etc.,   etc., etc.,
Washington.
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