Cablegram unnumbered 24 September 1939,
HIMSELF PRIVATE AND SECRET
Your private telegram representative abroad [1] -I would not think practical for one man to handle both London Washington.
As regards proposal that I should send a Minister to London for limited period Chamberlain [2] has now formally extended this invitation. Confess I am rather surprised at your nomination [3] but no doubt you have some special reasons. Would be grateful if you could let me know them.
MENZIES
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1 Document 232.
2 Neville Chamberlain, U.K. Prime Minister.
3 The word ‘inadvisable’ in Document 234 was incorrectly deciphered as ‘advisable’.
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[AA:M100, SEPTEMBER 1939]