Office of the Historian

740.0011 European War, 1939/258: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Kennedy)

Washington, September 11, 1939—4 p.m.

905. Personal for the Ambassador. Your 1578, September 11, 2 p.m. The President desires me to inform you, for your strictly confidential information and so that you may be guided thereby without divulging this message to any one, that this Government, so long as present European conditions continue, sees no opportunity nor occasion for any peace move to be initiated by the President of the United States. The people of the United States would not support any move for peace initiated by this Government that would consolidate or make possible a survival of a regime of force and of aggression.

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