795A.5/10–650: Telegram

The Ambassador in Sweden (Butterworth) to the Secretary of State

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449. In response to informal inquiry from Embassy Swedish Foreign Office states it has had no report from Swedish Embassy Peking concerning any intentions or attitudes along lines of last paragraph Depcirgram 9 October 5, 11 a. m. and has in fact received practically no reports from Embassy Peking in recent weeks, relations other than formal being practically non-existent. Entirely on its initiative, Foreign Office vouchsafed that Indian representative Peking is only diplomat who seems to have any relationship than formal. The Department can make its own estimate of reliability of information from that source.

Butterworth