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500.A15/1120: Telegram

The Chairman of the American Delegation (Gibson) to the Secretary of State

Geneva, November 18, 1930—4 p.m.
[Received November 18—11:50 a.m.]

26. Your No. 6, November 17, 5 p.m. We propose to circulate the proposed amendment on derogations during Thursday meeting.

In view of the insertion of the final sentence proposed by you at the end of paragraph B and in view of the President’s Armistice Day speech,83 it would be very helpful to receive, at the earliest possible moment, any comment on this resolution that you propose to make or have made to the press.

Gibson
  1. Address Delivered on November 11, 1930, at the Annual Conference and Good-Will Congress of the World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1930).↩