793.94/2611d: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Dawes)
322. You may take Eugene H. Dooman to Paris with you if you think it advisable. G. Howland Shaw will arrive there November 14 or 15 with full records from Geneva on Manchuria. He is being [Page 415] directed to call you by telephone from Berne. Of course, he is going to Paris normally on temporary assignment as Chargé and Counselor in the absence of Norman Armour. During your stay in Paris, it has been arranged to have Shaw entirely free to aid you with this matter, and he has been directed with this in mind to spend two days with Gilbert in Berne en route to Paris. The press will not be informed of this last. It has been deemed inadvisable at this time to send Gilbert to Paris lest his presence there when the Council meets raise the question of whether Gilbert would or would not continue sitting with the Council. Should you deem it advisable, however, after consulting with Shaw, to have Gilbert in Paris for the purpose solely of keeping you informed, I do not see any objection to his proceeding there without attendant publicity if he does not reach Paris until the day following the first meeting of the Council. Thus the latter would have met without Gilbert’s attending the opening session, and his presence without official status in Paris should raise no question.
Repeat to the Consul at Geneva.