500.A41a/12
The French Chargé (Béarn) to the Secretary of State
Mr. Secretary of State: The memorandum79 delivered to the Government of the Republic concerning the draft of the program of the Conference for the Limitation of Armament includes in paragraph 2 of the part relative to the limitation of armaments the following:
“rules for control of new agencies of warfare”.
On the other hand it concludes with the following:
“the Government of the United States expects also that opportunity will be afforded to consider and to reach an understanding with respect to the unsettled questions involving the nature and scope of commitments under which claims of rights may hereafter be asserted”.
My Government directs me to ask your Excellency kindly to state precisely the meaning and scope of those two sentences which it has found impossible accurately to translate.
Accept [etc.]