793.94/2171: Telegram
The Consul at Geneva (Gilbert) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 16—12:15 p.m.]
207. Consulate’s 205, October 16, 2 p.m. The following is the text of my acceptance:
“I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication addressed to the Secretary of State of the United States of America, under date of October 16th, in which you cite a proposal adopted by the Council of the League of Nations. You extend an invitation, in accordance with that proposal, to the Government of the United States to send a representative to sit at the Council table, so that he may be in a position to consider with the Council the relationship between the provisions of the Pact of Paris and the present unfortunate situation in Manchuria, and at the same time to follow the deliberations of the Council with regard to other aspects of the problem with which it is now confronted.
[Page 203]I am directed by the Secretary of State to accept on behalf of the Government of the United States this invitation to send a representative, and to inform you that he has designated me to act in that capacity.
I beg Your Excellency to accept the assurance of my highest consideration.”