500.A15a3/1038: Telegram
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Dawes) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 11—12:40 p.m.]
181. Saturday afternoon Craigie told Marriner39 that the French and the Italians had arranged for informal conversations to begin between Massigli and Rosso,40 each to be accompanied by a naval expert, in Paris on August 15. Craigie, together with Bellairs from [Page 133] the British Admiralty, will be touring in France and will be on call by the British Embassy in Paris in the event that the French-Italian conversations should bring forth any development calling for comment by the British before the meeting of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva on September 5, at which time the results of these conversations will be discussed by the representatives of the countries present there. Craigie told Marriner that he would keep the latter informed if anything of significance happened before the meeting of the Council, and said that he himself would be in Geneva when the Council met.
- Robert L. Craigie, head of the American Department of the British Foreign Office; and J. Theodore Marriner, Chief of the Division of Western European Affairs, Department of State.↩
- René Massigli, chief, and Augusto Rosso, director general, of the League of Nations sections of the French and Italian Ministries for Foreign Affairs, respectively.↩