793.94Advisory Committee/46
The Secretary General of the League of Nations (Drummond) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 26.]
Sir: I have the honour to enclose a copy of the circular42 drawn up by the Advisory Committee appointed by the Assembly of the League of Nations to follow the situation in the Far East and to aid the Members of the League in concerting their action and their attitude among themselves and with the non-Member States. The Advisory Committee has decided to send this circular, which relates to the measures involved by the non-recognition of “Manchukuo”, to the Members of the League and those non-Member States to which the [Page 121] Assembly’s report on the settlement of the Sino-Japanese dispute43 has been communicated.
The Advisory Committee recalls that on February 25th, 1933, immediately after the Assembly’s adoption of the report, the United States Government was good enough to inform me that “in their affirmations, respectively of the principle of non-recognition and their attitude in regard thereto, the League and the United States are on common ground.”44 Having also had the privilege of welcoming Mr. Hugh R. Wilson as the representative appointed by your Government to participate in its deliberations on the conditions stated in your telegram of March 11th,45 the Committee has instructed me to express to you the hope that the United States Government, exercising the independence of judgment that it has reserved with regard to action which the Committee may recommend, will, for its own part, declare its agreement to the measures that this circular recommends to the Governments for the purpose of giving effect to the principle of non-recognition.
I have [etc.]