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Australian Government - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Advancing the interests of Australia and Australians internationally

412 Lord Lothian, U.K. Ambassador to the United States, to U.K. Foreign Office and to Department of External Affairs

Cablegram 882/87 WASHINGTON, 8 December 1939, 11.39 a.m. [1]

CONFIDENTIAL

My telegram No. 825. [2] In reply to formal note Secretary of State has today advised me [3] that appointment of Minister to take charge all affairs relating to Australia is entirely acceptable to the United States Government and that President [4] will accord formal recognition at convenience of His Majesty [5] and His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia.

LOTHIAN

1 Another copy of this cablegram gives the date and time of dispatch as 7 December 1939, 10.45 p.m. (on file FA: AA1975/5, 1939, Australia-Representation (Dipl.) in Washington).

2 Not printed.

3 The note was in fact sent by the Acting Secretary of State, Sumner Welles, on 6 December 1939 (see PRO: FO 372/3319).

4 Franklin D. Roosevelt.

5 King George VI.

[AA: A461, A703/1/2]

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