861.00/6617: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Great Britain (Wright)
318. Please reply to note of Secretariat of League of Nations transmitted in your 495, March 24, 1 p.m. substantially as follows:
“I did not fail to refer to my government the text of the note in which you informed me of the decision of the Council of the League of Nations to approach the Government of the United States with the object of securing its representation, at least in a consultative capacity, upon the commission which the Council proposes to send to Russia for the purpose of reporting on conditions in that country. I am now in receipt of a reply from my government and I regret to inform you that it is not possible for the United States to be represented in any capacity upon the proposed commission.”