811.04418/508: Telegram
The Chargé in Hungary (Travers) to the Secretary of State
Budapest, July 27,
1939—2 p.m.
[Received July 27—1:11 p.m.]
[Received July 27—1:11 p.m.]
139. The Foreign Minister yesterday expressed to me his conviction that the failure of the American Congress to pass the Neutrality Act and the British trial balloon by Hudson17 of a loan to Germany constituted the greatest present dangers to sustained peace. The first, because it precluded the democratic powers from achieving definite military preponderance; the second, because Hitler would seize upon the idea as a sign of British weakness [at a time?] when utmost firmness of democratic powers is imperative.
Travers
- K. S. Hudson, British Parliamentary Secretary for the Department of Overseas Trade.↩