711.6112 France/50: Telegram
The Chargé in France (Whitehouse) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 26—10:15 a.m.]
289. Your telegram No. 220 of July 25. Ever since Briand’s return from Geneva he has been down in the country except when he has come to Paris on brief visits to attend Cabinet meetings. I communicated your telegram 209, July 13, 1 p.m., to M. Leger, Briand’s Chief of Cabinet. When I saw Leger this morning he assured me that the Foreign Office had given out no statement of any kind with respect to the proposed treaty. Leger added that he saw a correspondent of the Chicago Daily News several days ago. Leger said he rather expected the correspondent to question him about the treaty but he did not do so, his purpose being to gain information concerning the Vienna riots.