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                                   BRITISH EMBASSY,
 
                                   WASHINGTON, D.C.
 
                                   November 13th, 1939.
 
 
Dear Mr. Secretary,
 
     In the last paragraph of the telegram of which Mr.
 
Mallet sent you a copy in his letter of November 11th it
 
was stated that the Foreign Office had heard from our Am-
 
bassador in Paris that the Belgian Minister for Foreign
 
Affairs was appealing for military conversations with the
 
French authorities and that a French general was to be sent
 
at once to Brussels.  It would seem however from a fur-
 
ther telegram which has now reached us from London that
 
the earlier message was not altogether accurate.  Our Am-
 
bassador at Brussels states that it is exaggerated to say
 
that M. Spaak is appealing for conversations and that it is
 
not the case that a French general is being sent to Brus-
sels.
 
          Believe me, My dear Mr. Secretary,
     
                              Yours very sincerely,
 
                                                  LOTHIAN
 
The Honourable
               Cordell Hull, 
                         Secretary of State of
                                        the United States
 
                                                  Washington, D.C.