The Archive · 1939

Touch on Europe

Close Contact Maintained With British Leaders

Washington, Mar. 28.

President Roosevelt conferred with the Under-Secretary of State, Mr. Sumner Welles, and the Assistant Secretaty of State, Mr. Francis B. Sayre, for several hours yesterday. They were understood to have reviewed recent European developments in detail on the basis of latest advices, They were understood to have stressed the effect of the Administration's reciprocal trade treaty programme and efforts to devise a plan for the disposal of the nation's cotton surplus.

Government circles reported today that the United States is remaining in close consultation with Britain on recent European developments. The American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Mr. Joseph Kennedy, yesterday called on the British Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, and later conferred with Mr. Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister.

—United Press.

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