Office of the Historian

511.4R1/12: Telegram

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

Geneva, September 8, 1931—3 p.m.
[Received September 8—2:10 p.m.]

118. Legation’s despatch No. 2094, June 19, 1931.26 Ekstrand27 has just called to explain how anxiously he and the others interested in this conference are hoping for a favorable response from the United States.

Delevingne,28 Van Wettum,29 Kusama,30 Marshall from India31 and probably Bourgois32 will attend.

The conference begins on November 9th and its anticipated duration is 3 weeks. As very little time remains before those participating must start their voyage Ekstrand begs to learn the decision of our Government at the earliest convenient date.

Wilson
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Eric Einar Ekstrand, chairman of the Inquiry Commission in 1930 and director of the Opium Traffic and Social Questions sections of the League of Nations Secretariat.↩
  3. Sir Malcolm Delevingne, Permanent Deputy-Under-Secretary of State in the British Home Department.↩
  4. W. G. van Wettum, Adviser to the Netherlands Government for International Opium Affairs.↩
  5. Of the Japanese Foreign Office.↩
  6. J. B. Marshall, Excise Commissioner of Burma.↩
  7. G. Bourgois, French Consul at Bangkok.↩