793.94/2336
The Counselor of the British Embassy (Osborne) to the Secretary of State
My Dear Mr. Secretary: I telegraphed to Lord Reading in the sense of our conversation on Friday evening the 16th and I have now received a reply from him.
He hopes that his telegram to the Foreign Office, copy of which I enclose84 for your information, will show you that their chief preoccupation at Geneva has been to do everything possible to fall in with your wishes and as far as possible to remove any difficulties you might have to meet in taking the very important step of allowing an American representative to sit at the Council table. In giving you the above message I am to add that there never was any intention of leaving you to take the sole initiative in invoking the Pact of Paris, that any impression you may have gained to that effect is due to a misunderstanding, and that you can rely on him to maintain the closest possible cooperation with you and with your representative in Geneva.
Believe me [etc.]
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