861.00/6453: Telegram
The Ambassador in Great Britain ( Davis ) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 12 noon.]
336. I am unofficially informed that the Council of the League of Nations will probably accede to the request made by the Supreme Council to send a committee of investigation into Russia. The Council of the League will meet at Paris in about two weeks for the selection of such a committee on which it is proposed to place a representative of England, France, Japan, and Italy and persons selected from the nationals of other [apparent omission] for peculiar fitness. Among those discussed are Nansen from Norway, Van der Veldt from Belgium, perhaps another from Czechoslovakia. The Council would probably like to include an American, not necessarily as representing the Government of the United States but no doubt with a view to relate American opinion to the project. It does not desire, however, to extend such an invitation if the Government of the United States would disapprove or if such an invitation would be summarily rejected. Do you desire that I give any intimation of the attitude of the United States in this matter? Is there any objection to the forwarding of such an invitation to a properly qualified American citizen?