511.1D1/48: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in France (Armour)
368. For Gordon. Your 509, November 5, 10 a.m. In its telegraphic instruction of October 11, 1929, to the American Legation at Berne, the Department requested Mr. Wilson to notify the Secretary General of the League of Nations in the sense of the following:
[Here follows the text of the statement embodied in the Department’s telegram under reference, printed on page 430.]
Since you were assigned to attend the Conference in a consultative capacity it would seem obvious that the United States did not contemplate becoming a party to the Convention.
Department approves tenor of statement which you propose to make during course of general discussion which will open Conference.