You will note from the copy of Lord Lothian's telegram of today to
the Foreign Office copy of which has gone to you as No. 91 [1]
that Mr Menzies' anxiety reference a Russo-Japanese agreement was
mentioned to Mr Hull. As regards Mr Menzies' impression that there
had been insufficient discussion with the U.S.A. on the broad and
positive policy to be followed Lord Lothian [2] had discussions at
State Department on broad lines on 7th and 9th December. If you
have not had reports from London I will telegraph relevant
extracts forthwith. [3]