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 TELEGRAM SENT 
COPY:SS GRAY
March 5, 1940
3 p.m.
AMERICAN EMBASSY LONDON
  
418

STRICLY CONFIDENTIAL

Your 490. February 28, 8 p.m.

Please convey following message to the Naval Person from the President.

QUOTE Upon my return to Washington, I received your message. I deeply appreciate your efforts. I am having the situation thoroughly studied and will communicate with you further as soon as possible. END QUOTE
  

Roosevelt.

HULL

(CWG)

Eu: JDH:DG A-BPA/DA-B

“Leave the past to history especially as I propose to write that history myself.”

Winston S. Churchill