Volume 6 1939~1941


Doc No.
Date
Subject

No. 121 NAI DFA Secretary's Files S113

Code telegram from the Irish Legation, Washington DC
to the Department of External Affairs, Dublin
(No. 15) (Personal) (Copy)

Washington, 3 February 1940

Your despatch 11.1 The State Department refused to intervene but accepted yesterday Friday statement from me for the President who is in Hyde Park.2 Walker also contacted him. The British ambassador at Washington had no reply but assured me that his cable had gone to the highest authority.

1 See No. 112.

2 President Roosevelt's birthplace, home and place of burial in Dutchess County, New York State.