793.94/2026: Telegram
The Consul at Geneva (Gilbert) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 9—4 p.m.]
167. Consulate’s 166, October 9, noon. The following identic telegram has just been sent by Lerroux as President of the Council to Chinese and Japanese Governments:
“Information received tends to show that incidents are taking place in Manchuria, and elsewhere, which cannot but embitter feeling and thus render settlement more difficult. In these circumstances and pending the meeting of the Council, I feel it is my duty as President of the Council to remind the two parties of the engagements taken before the Council to refrain from any action which would aggravate the situation, and to express the confident hope that steps are being taken on both sides to execute fully the assurances given to the Council and embodied in its resolution of the 30th September.”