710.C2/228: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Brazil (Morgan)
18. Your 22, May 12, 3 p.m. Please deliver the following immediately to Messrs. Scott and Reeves:
“Referring to your communication transmitted in the Embassy’s May 12, 3 p.m., and having in mind the evident disposition as reflected in recent press despatches to attribute unusual official importance to the statements and proposals of the American Delegates, the Department does not consider it practicable or advisable for you to submit to the plenary session any plan such as the one you have in contemplation. Your plan has not been submitted and considered here, and from your statement it would not even be discussed or voted upon by the Commission of Jurists. The practical result of the proposed action would be to involve this Government in an implied commitment in favor of some plan which it has had no opportunity to examine and pass upon, thereby limiting to a certain degree its freedom of action at the next Pan American Conference. In these circumstances you are instructed to refrain from introducing the plan.”