560.M3/15: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland ( Wilson )

57. Your despatch No. 393, April 13, 1928. Please communicate the following to the Secretary General of the League of Nations in the usual informal manner:

“The Secretary of State of the United States of America has received, with appreciation, the note of the Deputy Secretary General of the League of Nations, dated April 11, 1928,17 in which he was good enough to inform the American Government that the meeting, provided for under Article 17 of the International Convention for the Abolition of Import and Export Prohibitions and Restrictions, would take place on July 3, 1928, at Geneva, and in which he requested that he be advised, as soon as convenient, of the composition of the delegation which the Government of the United States will send to this meeting.

In reply the Secretary of State takes pleasure in stating that the President has appointed Mr. Hugh Wilson, American Minister to Switzerland, to attend the meeting in question as the representative of the United States. Mr. Wilson will be assisted by one or more advisers whose names will be communicated to the Secretariat as soon as possible.”

The Department expects to appoint Bidwell, Lyon, and Moffat as your assistants. Please instruct Tuck to act again as Secretary.

Full instructions will be transmitted by pouch.

Kellogg
  1. Ante, p. 370.