462.00R296/4698: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Great Britain (Atherton)
236. For Gibson. Reference is made to your telegram No. 264 of July 24, 10 a.m. We understand your point of view and agree with your plan. However, since all information and material relating to some of the matters which will be dealt with by the Committee of Experts have been concentrated in your hands, the Near Eastern debt settlement, for example, and since General Dawes probably will not have followed these angles of the question nearly as closely, you will naturally want to delay your departure until he feels certain about all the important matters that will come before the Committee.
I do not want to make this message final until I can talk with the President on Monday. He has gone away for the week-end and it was his idea that you go to London. However, I am certain that he will agree.