793.94 Conference/165b: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Bingham)
Washington, November 1, 1937—4
p.m.
434. Press reports Eden stated in Parliament today “The United States took the initiative in convoking Nine Power Conference, etc.” [Page 134] and “I feel I ought to make it quite plain that the initiative for holding the Conference in Brussels never came from us at all, but from the United States.”
Please cable urgently text of what Eden actually said pertinent to these statements.
Welles