711.42157Sa29/789
The Minister in Canada (MacNider) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 12.]
Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith for the Department’s information and files copy of a note received from the Prime Minister on September 12, 1931, as already explained by me in the course of informal oral conversations with various officers of the Department. This note summarizes, in a general way, the present situation as regards informal conversations looking to the development of the St. Lawrence waterway. As the Department is aware, the Prime Minister consented to write such a note only on the condition that its contents should be considered strictly confidential and that neither the text nor the substance of it should be given out or published without the consent of the Canadian Government.
Respectfully yours,
- See instruction No. 1, August 26, 1930, to the Minister in Canada, ibid., p. 532.↩
- Ibid., p. 533.↩