500.A15a3/462
The British Chargé (Campbell) to the Secretary of State
Sir: I have the honour to inform you, under instructions from His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that all five Governments concerned having now accepted January 21st as the date for the opening of the Naval Conference, the opening meeting will now definitely be held on the morning of that day.
Mr. Henderson would be glad to receive, not later than December 15th next, a complete list of all advisers, experts, and secretaries who will be attending the conference. It would be convenient if this list [Page 292] could be drawn up in two forms, the first list indicating the technical division between the various groups of advisers and the second giving the whole list of advisers, experts and secretaries in order of their precedence.94
I have [etc.]
- The information requested was communicated to the British Embassy in the Department’s note of December 19, 1929, not printed. The composition of the American delegation to the London Naval Conference is printed in full in Department of State, Press Releases, December 21, 1929, p. 121.↩