500.A15a3/739a: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Chairman of the American Delegation (Stimson)

175. For Senator Reed from Huntley.67 Senator Moses told me today he does not share the view that a consultative treaty cannot be put through the Senate, and says that he does not see why anyone who subscribed to the Knox formula68 in the League of Nations fight cannot support such a treaty if one should be signed as a by-product of the London Conference. Considering Moses’ prominence in anti-League fight, this statement is very significant. Senator Watson says Fess sounded Senate key-note on Conference yesterday when, in the course of speech, he summarized administration achievements and reviewed Conference background.69

The principal features relating to this Conference of this speech are:

[Here follows a summary of the speech.]

Cotton
  1. T. A. Huntley, secretary to Senator Reed.
  2. The form of reservation proposed by Senator Knox of Pennsylvania on November 6, 1919, for consent to the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles (Treaties, Conventions, etc., Between the United States of America and Other-Powers, 1910–1923 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1923), vol. iii, p. 3329) in such terms as would make the United States a consulting member of the League of Nations; Congressional Record, vol. 58, pt. 8, p. 8000, pt. 9, p. 8742.
  3. Speech delivered by Simeon D. Fess, Senator from Ohio, on March 4, 1930; Congressional Record, vol. 72, pt. 5, p. 4666.