500.A15a3/804a: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chairman of the American Delegation (Stimson)
274. It has been suggested that a new formula draft be cabled to you for your consideration, as it contains a new idea. This new formula, which follows, does not represent my personal view:9
“In accordance with the spirit of this undertaking, i. e., the Kellogg Pact, the signatories declare that in the event of a controversy among them which cannot be settled by direct negotiation, those signatories not parties to the controversy will advise and use their good offices to the end that they may discover a pacific means of settlement—it being the clear understanding that ‘pacific means’ shall be interpreted as excluding all coercive action.”
- Quoted passage not paraphrased.↩