Office of the Historian

793.94/3208: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul at Geneva (Gilbert)

Washington, December 17, 1931—6 p.m.

135. Your No. 315, December 15, 9 a.m. This Government has no objection to the appointment of Mr. Walker D. Hines on the League Committee to investigate the situation in Manchuria. The Department has communicated with Mr. Hines confidentially, who says that the matter interests him greatly, but that he has not yet received the formal invitation. He fears other work he now has in hand might make it impossible for him to accept, but should the invitation reach him, he will give it most careful consideration.91

Stimson
  1. Subsequently the invitation was declined by Mr. Hines.↩