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Advancing the interests of Australia and Australians internationally

Australian Government - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Advancing the interests of Australia and Australians internationally

338 Mr S. M. Bruce, High Commissioner in London, to Mr R. G. Casey, Minister to the United States

Cablegram 17 LONDON, 4 June 1940, 9.05 p.m.

PERSONAL FOR CASEY

Prime Minister [1] asked me at length to convey a message to you saying how admirable he thought your presentation of the position to Welles was. [2] He stressed the necessity of not allowing the President to think that whatever happened the British Fleet would be transferred across the Atlantic.

1 Winston S. Churchill.

2 See Document 319.

[AA: A3300, 47]

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