Office of the Historian

882.5048/375a

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Wilson)

Washington, December 23, 1930.
No. 1204

Sir: With reference to the investigation into slavery and forced labor recently concluded by an International Commission of Inquiry in Liberia, I am enclosing, for transmission to the Acting Secretary General of the League of Nations in the usual informal manner, a note with respect to the representations which I have already made to Liberia on this subject.51

It is requested that you inform the Department by cable upon the delivery of the above communication,52 and that you also inform the Consulate at Geneva of this action in order that Mr. Gilbert may state informally, when occasion arises, that the American Government is making this information available in accordance with Article 4 of the International Slavery Convention of 1926.

Very truly yours,

For the Secretary of State:
W. R. Castle, Jr.
  1. Enclosures printed in League of Nations document C.L.3.1931.VI (Geneva, January 9, 1931).↩
  2. Delivered January 8, 1931.↩