504.418A2/258: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in the Netherlands (Diekema)
28. [For Miller.] Your 54, Conference 22. Your recommendations approved.
Your 55, Conference 23. Your recommendations approved.
I have had considerable doubt as to the point Flournoy raises; but because of considerable criticism going on here by a certain group of women, I should prefer that there be no signing of conventions at all at The Hague and prefer to have our Government’s signature affixed, if at all, after you return. I am aware that this course may mean that other nations will not be following your example by signing promptly, but I regard that difficulty as unavoidable.