740.0011 Pacific War/221
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Secretary of State
[Washington,] May 27, 1941.
The British Ambassador called at his request. He read a despatch from Anthony Eden, Foreign Minister, in which he offered profuse apologies for the tone and nature of a recent aide-mémoire regarding some phases of the Pacific area which the British Ambassador, on his last visit to my office,7 proposed that I should receive and file, but which he retained after some rather vigorous comment on my part. The truth is that the Foreign Minister had all of his facts wrong.
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