Office of the Historian

841.711/2812: Telegram

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

London, November 21, 1939—5 p.m.
[Received November 21—1:35 p.m.]

2416. A note based on your 1448, November 17, 7 p.m., has been sent to the Foreign Office.61 I had previously taken up personally with Lord Halifax the question of interference by naval and censorship [Page 269] authorities with my personal mail, three instances of which have occurred, but I have not yet received a reply from him.

Kennedy
  1. Copy of note No. 1563, November 20, 1939, was sent to the Department by the Ambassador as an enclosure to his despatch No. 4548, February 3, 1940; neither printed.↩