793.94/2255b: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul at Geneva (Gilbert)
111. Department appreciates the pressure under which you and your staff are laboring, but suggests that in telephoning to the Secretary you confine the calls and the subject matter to most urgent matters only, avoid matters which can await treatment by exchange of cables, and make your statements as concise as possible. You will realize that it is desirable in connection with most questions of policy to allow more time for consideration than is possible in the course of the give-and-take of a telephone conversation and that the Secretary does not desire to have to make comments or commitments with regard to such matters on the basis of and during their oral communication to him.