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Memorandum by the Petroleum Adviser (Rayner)26
I am informed by the British Embassy that the following telegram was sent by the Prime Minister to the President yesterday.
“Many thanks for your telegram of June 7 number 554. Points of principle have arisen in connection with Brown’s report which it has been necessary to take up in the Cabinet, and oil being so vital to our security and other reasons we have referred them to a ministerial [Page 118] committee, but I hope that this will not mean any great delay and that I will be able to let you know how the matter stands in the very near future.”
The Brown referred to above is Sir William Brown who was Chairman of the British Delegation which conducted the preliminary discussions with our American Expert Group.
- Addressed to the Secretary of State and the Under Secretary.↩