793.94/2611f: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Dawes)
327. I am announcing this morning at 11 o’clock that you will go to Paris. The announcement is in the following form:
“I have asked General Dawes, the Ambassador in London, to go to Paris during the coming meeting of the statesmen who compose the Council of the League of Nations. Inasmuch as this meeting will consider the present situation in Manchuria and questions may arise which will affect the interests or treaty obligations of the United States, I desire to have at hand in Paris a man of General Dawes’ standing, particularly as the American Ambassador to Paris is at home on leave. It is not anticipated that General Dawes will find it necessary to take part in the meetings of the League Council, but he will be in a position to confer with the representatives of the other nations present in Paris in case such conference should seem desirable.”