793.94/2220b: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul at Geneva (Gilbert)
103. My 101, October 19, 1 p.m. Conforming to the understanding which Reading and I reached in the telephone conversation just concluded, I autharize you to sit in the Council’s secret session [Page 260] tomorrow, but not at any other secret sessions; also, to take your seat at the Council table in the public session next succeeding; but thereafter to occupy a seat which ordinarily is assigned to an “observer” As I understand it, the Japanese representative will make a statement at the next public session to explain Japan’s objection to United States representation, and in acknowledgment of this statement you will make one. At this session you will keep your seat until the session ends. At later sessions you will take the seat of an “observer”.