Office of the Historian

840.00 Economic Non-Aggression/8: Telegram

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

Washington, October 16, 1931—4 p.m.

138. Your despatch No. 2260, September 30, 1931. You are directed to acknowledge receipt in the usual informal manner of the Secretary-General’s communication to me of September 29th, and to embody in your acknowledgment the following “In reply, the United States Government, while thanking the Council of the League of Nations for its courtesy in extending this invitation, does not expect to participate in the work of this committee.”38

Stimson
  1. A memorandum of October 13, 1931, prepared in the Division of Western European Affairs states: “… The pact itself is in very general terms; and appears to offer nothing sufficiently practical to justify our acceptance of the invitation. Nobody in Geneva seems to have taken it very seriously…”↩