793.94/2077: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul at Geneva (Gilbert)
[Paraphrase]
Washington, October 13, 1931—5
p.m.
87. Your 188, October 13, noon. Your views therein are approved. If the League Council should invite the United States to take part in its discussion of the present Manchurian situation, authorization is [Page 184] given you to accept such invitation, to sit in any discussion of this subject as an observer and auditor, and to participate in the Council discussions when they relate to possible application of the Kellogg Pact, of which treaty the United States is a signatory.
Stimson