Cablegram 96 WASHINGTON, 20 December 1939, 5.39 p.m.
CONFIDENTIAL
Addressed to Foreign Office No. 943, Canberra No. 96.
My telegram No. 920. [1] Agrement granted please advise me proposed text and date announcement so that I may inform State Department.
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1 Lothian to U.K. Foreign Office, 16 December 1939, not printed (on file AA: CP 290/6, item 1). It read: ‘As reaction to informal enquiry was entirely favourable, I have today addressed a formal request for agrement to the Secretary of State’.
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[AA: A461, A703/1/2] OFFICER