560.M3/25: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Wilson)
65. Your 64, June 27, 5 p.m., paragraph 2. Department would favor the first alternative that you suggest, namely the presentation in a speech of what would amount to a brief on the legality of the French action with respect to films under the terms of the treaty. However, the Department agrees with you that it is essential that such a procedure should meet with success, a matter concerning which you alone are in a position to judge. The Department therefore leaves to your discretion the question of what procedure you shall adopt in this case and is desirous of receiving the text of your proposed remarks, which you may make or not in accordance with the circumstances that may arise at the conference. Telegram will follow on point 1.