763.72119/6823: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Commission to Negotiate Peace
3180. For Polk from Phillips. Your 4126, September 9, 7 p.m. and 4216, September 15, 3 p.m. were forwarded to the President and I have today received the following reply:
“Polk is taking exactly the right position with regard to the continuation of the Conference and I hope you will give him our strong support in the matter. It would be very nearly fatal to the whole state of mind of the world, if the British were to withdraw and break up the Conference.”
I have not considered it necessary to forward your 4244, September 17, 7 p.m., as the matter seemed sufficiently clear without the information contained in that telegram.