London, March 11, 1938.
 
      
 
 
Dear Mr. President:
 
      I am writing this at noon, after just having made three courtesy 
      calls on the French, Spanish and Argentine Ambassadors. This 
      afternoon I have the Turkish Embassy, the Cardinal Archbishop 
      of Westminster, the Russian Embassy and the Brazilian Embassy 
      and, if I get anything interesting, I will add it on to this 
      letter.
 
      
 
 
I don't expect that I will be able to tell you anything you 
      are not familiar with or that you will consider very deeply a 
      judgment formed after ten days here, but there are certain definite 
      signs that would help me to make up my mind in America on a given 
      condition and I think I am justified in drawing the same conclusions 
      here.
 
      
 
 
First of all, I am impressed in talking with the various Government 
      officials of foreign countries that they regard the situation 
      as acute in Central Europe, but, in the words of the French Ambassador 
      this
 
      
 
 
The President,
 
      The White House.