832.51/1735: Telegram
The Assistant Secretary of State (Berle) to the President of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council (White)
Washington, March 5, 1940.
Have requested Caffery to try to hold matters open pending our receipt of further word from you.
The Department’s position is that it has obtained the best offer possible. The Council’s decision as to the course it follows must be exclusively its own responsibility. The Department believes it should not accept your telephone communication in view of the fact that you coupled it with the statement that it was taken only on the assumption that Department had requested such action.
A. A. Berle, Jr.